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Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8)
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Rustom Mody |
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Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) |
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Thu, 1 Aug 2013 21:44:24 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Friday, August 2, 2013 5:09:16 AM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I wish I had Unix running on my machine!
>
> Do you need help with that?
Since this seems to be such a FAQ, attempting to say something. Hopefully more
windows-aware folks will amend.
Many people using windows find need for unix-ish facilities/features/feel.
Setting up native windows emacs is a first (but not last!) step.
cygwin is considered a full-featured but somewhat heavyweight answer to this
need
mingw is a somewhat lighter solution.
Some comparison here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/771756/what-is-the-difference-between-cygwin-and-mingw
You can also set up diff/grep etc alone.
[I believe Eli has posted the link a few days back...]
Other solutions:
Win+Linux side-by-side: Make your system multibootable with grub.
This is an old solution. In my most recent bundled-with-win-8 laptop, copying
files from ubuntu and windows is not working as it used to. Seems to be a
uefi/gpt problem.
Windows-inside-linux: wubi can be installed as a normal windows program inside
windows and was quite popular but again seems to be suffering gpt/uefi related
problems.
Linux-in-VM-in-windows: I know some friends who swear by VMware. No experience
myself.
Wine: windows emulator inside linux. Will run many (not all!) windows programs
on a vanilla gnu/linux