Re: Emacs on Windows XP -> Cygwin

[Chris McMahan]

I wouldn't recommend that. I am running Windows XP with Cygwin, and
I'm using the XP (w32) version of Emacs and the cygwin tools without
any problems.

The cygwin version of emacs is (AFAIK) an older version. To get
windowing support, you must run the Cygwin xserver.

You might look at an emacs installation that specializes in getting
emacs, cygwin and win32 talking together very nicely. It's the
EmacsW32 project

http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html

I would highly recommend you install this version. It's the easiest,
most painless way to get the latest Emacs working under XP.

- Chris

Raimund Kohl-Füchsle <Raimund.Kohl@nabuli.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> as mentioned recently I have a Thinkpad with Windows XP running.  I
> installed emacs 22.x on it the way I read it someplace on the internet
> ... not under C.\Programme but under C.\emacs instead.  Works ... only
> printing from within emacs does not work.  However, now I found out
> there is Cygwin ... well, looks great so far.  Now here the question:
> AFAIU Cygwin is "best choice" if one is wanting to have XP working
> Linux.like plus having some Xnix tools too.  To enjoy Cygwin, am I to
> deinstall emacs the way I have it now, then to install Cygwin and
> reinstall emacs only this time as a Cygwin package?  Does this sound
> reasonable?  I don't mind much installing/reinstalling ... as long as
> it is the best way to have all things running greatly ... :-)
>
> Thanx in advance
>
> ray
>
>
>
>

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