On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Ehud Karni wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:51:40 +0100, Jason Rumney wrote: > > > > Chris Lott writes: > > > > > Is the "best" way to run emacs on Windows XP to use the Native XP build > > > or the Cygwin? By "best" I mean: stable, able to run elisp code from > > > emacs.sources, and able to effectively use external tools like grep, > > > diff, etc... ? > > > > If you are only using Cygwin tools, then Cygwin might be better in > > some respects, but if that is the case, why use Windows at all? > > > > For any other case, I'd have to say the native build for the following > > reasons. > > > > Cygwin Emacs does not appear to be regularly maintained. Maybe the > > original port was good enough that it doesn't need anyone maintaining > > it, but I doubt it. > > Cygwin Emacs is VERY well maintained by Joe Buehler. He did a superb > job, including the unexec part. His changes are included in the main > trunk, so compiling Emacs from CVS in Cygwin works OOTB. > > I was working with NTEmacs and switched to the Cygwin Emacs because > of two reasons: > 1. You have the full UNIX toolset with real POSIX support > (e.g. same paths, env vars with lower case letters). > 2. Some things that were included in UNIX Emacs (jpeg IIRC) were not > supported by the NTEmacs but worked with Cygwin Emacs on X. > > If you use the Cygwin toolset, I highly recommend using Cygwin Emacs.
Sounds interesting. Two question from a guy who just thinks about trying out the cygwin-port: 1. Did you encounter performance-issues with the cygwin port of Emacs? I ask, because the cygwin-port of XEmacs is often horrible slow concerning file-operations compared with the native Windows-port. 2. Is a X-Server needed for running the cygwin-port of Emacs. I'm just running the rxvt-terminal of cygwin and the native Windows-port of Emacs and i'm quite happy with it. Do i need the X-server for the cygwin-port? Thanks a lot in advance, Klaus > > Ehud. -- Klaus Berndl mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sd&m AG http://www.sdm.de software design & management Carl-Wery-Str. 42, 81739 Muenchen, Germany Tel +49 89 63812-392, Fax -220 _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
