2016-08-23 10:24 GMT+02:00 Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk>: > On Tuesday, 23 Aug 2016 at 01:34, Grant Rettke wrote: > > I found Cygwin to make things more difficult for Emacs so I installed > > the plain old Windows Emacs and did the following: > > > > https://github.com/grettke/help/blob/master/help.md#windows > > Thanks. I'll check this out. > > If I ever have to use a Windows system at all, I want bash & emacs and > cygwin makes it very easy (for me).
I always found Cygwin to be a PIA when working under Windows. I vastly prefer to use msys2+mingw64. Emacs 25 compiles out of the box as a native w64 app and you get bash + all the tools you may want. My $0.02 Fabrice
