Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows

[Guy Gascoigne-Piggford]

True, and one of the reasons why I use NT Emacs rather than the cygwin 
port is that it fully understands Windows sytle naming conventions and 
drive identifiers.  Since everything has to be mounted under fake mount 
points with cygwin there really is quite a disjoint between the two.  
Certainly not insurmountable, but annoying all the same.

I've really not found a good free solution and so I still use MKS Toolkit.

As an aside, the realy stumbling block that I have with cygwin is that 
it's pty handling screws with the way that Java,  a the Java Service 
Wrapper and stdout interact.  Basically the combination works just fun 
under MKS sh and cmd.exe and doesn't under cygwin.  Very frustrating.

Guy

Stephen Leake wrote:

> Neil Mackie <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  
>
> > But why would a shell be a concern when you can do everything from
> > within emacs?  &8-> 
> >    
>
> I see the smiley, but for newbies we should make clear: a _lot_ of the
> functionality of Emacs as an Integrated Development Environment comes
> from the ability to run shell commands. So a Gnu-compatible shell
> (such as Cygwin bash) enhances Emacs tremendously.
>
>  

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Guy Gascoigne - Piggford
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