The Labrat toolkit has many, many good unix utils ported to win32: http://labrattech.com/project/labrattoolkit/
(Sorry if this has already been mentioned, I caught this thread half-way through) Brett Sometime around Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:26:36AM +0200, Lennart Borgman said: > treebeard wrote: > > >Chris Lott wrote: > > > >>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... ? > >> > >>c > >> > >I find using the Windows-native Emacs or XEmacs in conjunction with > >the cygwin tools to be the most versatile. Either way, you have access > >to all of the binaries on the path (incl the cygwin binaries). One > >thing I really like about the native vs. cygwin versions is that > >drag-and-drop of directories or files from Windows Explorer is supported. > > I have found the Gnuwin32 version of gnu tools to be very good together > with Emacs (but I am not the most experienced). For example they can > handle both unix and Windows style line endings without difficulties. In > contrast this is currently not the case with MSYS which makes it quite a > bit harder to use MSYS. > > However I miss "sh" which unfortunateluy not is not part of the Gnuwin32 > tools. (It would be nice if someone ported it in a useful way like the > other Gnuwin32 tools.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs > -- Brett Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inkedmn.com:8000 GPG Public Key: http://inkedmn.com:8000/stuff/inkedmn.asc _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
