Timeline for Set up Emacs on Windows to start a single instance and open files in the existing instance
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| Sep 26, 2014 at 23:46 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | This answers the question in the original, overly-general, title, but does not help with the actual question. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 7:44 | comment | added | Seki | @Drew: No, actually my point was that installing Cygwin for just having some Gnu command line tools is overkill when simpler and smaller solutions exist. GnuWin32 binaries are more "isolated" (you can just install one tool) when you just need, say, grep or wget while Cygwin must install a package of tools for at first initialize the Cygwin ecosystem. But Cygwin is useful, I do use it for specific tasks. | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 15:11 | comment | added | Drew | @Seki: So it seems that your main point is that Cygwin and MingGW do not play well together. That's not surprising to me. (FWIW, I have nothing against using MingGW instead of Cygwin. For me it was simple to install Cygwin, and I don't use enough of it to have encountered problems.) | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 8:36 | comment | added | Seki | @drew: perhaps excessive for talking about "breaking" emacs, "causing weird behavior" would have been better. For example Cygwin Make will brake the MinGW toolchain if you do not carefully check your path for Cygwin tools not being taken into account or taken by default if no other exist. It is not limited to Make, many other tools cannot mix and sometimes it is subtle to point the problem. So in short, either you have a native port of Emacs and it is better to have native GNU tools, or you can use the whole Cygwin distribution including its emacs. | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 1:27 | comment | added | Drew | @Seki - Yes, Eli Zaretskii says the same thing as you. All I can say is that I have had no problem (and I have serious doubts wrt your claim of it breaking Emacs). But (a) I am using an old Cygwin release and (b) I don't use most of the UNIX / GNU Linux utilities provided by Cygwin. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 23:07 | comment | added | Seki | I do not recommend to install Cygwin, as there can be undesirable side-effects (like breaking other gnu windows ports like emacs, gcc, ...), for just having some gnu tools. Instead install GnuWin32 ports. You can install the whole package or selected tools of your choice. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 18:30 | comment | added | M Smith | Note: Do not use the cygwin EMACS. Install the GNU build from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 14:49 | history | answered | Drew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |