> ediff is worth the price of admission. > emacs needs an exernal diff, and cygwin provides it. > > >>As its name suggests, the cygwin-mount.el library allows emacs > >>to understand cygwin mount points.... > >>For me, running Windows without cygwin would be unthinkable.
As one more data point, I too happily use Emacs on Windows and Cygwin. I don't use the Cygwin build of Emacs (I tried it once, long ago, and was disappointed, but I don't remember the details). I don't claim that using Cygwin is better; I've never tried the native Windows tools ports. I'm sure that Eli's points are valid. But `cygwin-mount.el' makes Cygwin play well enough with Emacs for me. I also use `setup-cygwin.el', which provides a few other nice-to-haves: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/setup-cygwin.el. The file header references Markus Hoenika paper "SGML for Windows NT", which you might also find useful. HTH.
