Re: Emacs for Windows

[E Sabof]

Thanks, I'll keep these in mind

Evgeni

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: E Sabof <esabof@gmail.com>
>> Cc: haroogan@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:38:57 +0100
>>
>> I recall trying to get GIT (which comes with it's own mini posix 
>> environment), ack-grep (not part of cygwin, and requiring a windows version 
>> of perl), SSH (I think from cygwin) to get along, while trying to keep thing 
>> like find-dired and find-grep working.
>
> None of that is a problem for me.  Instead of SSH, I suggest plink
> from PuTTY (which Tramp supports out of the box), and the "mini posix
> environment" that comes with GIT, which are MSYS programs, is
> available in native MinGW ports from GnuWin32.
>
> So, while the initial setup does takes some effort, it is not too hard
> and doesn't require anything except unzipping a bunch of archives and
> setting up PATH.