At 12:35 AM 5/5/2007, Stephen Leake wrote:
Others have pointed out the GnuWin32 port of diff.
However, Cygwin has _many_ tools that GnuWin32 does not.
For me, the clincher is cygwin's X server.
I often need to work with Linux and *BSD boxes as well as Windows.
It's true that I can ssh to those and run emacs in a plain terminal
window. However, the .emacs file I use everywhere has many, many
extra key bindings involving the function keys as well as most
M-alphabetics, and a plain terminal window doesn't give me access to
all of those. When I run my remote emacs in a cygwin X window,
though, it's nearly as powerful as my local NT emacs. (C-M-F10 seems
to get eaten, but that's about the only limitation I've found.)
Plus which, I can freely open additional remote emacs frames using
normal emacs commands.
I also like that cygwin's X server's default window manager makes
the remote windows peers of local application windows.
I've used a couple of different commercial Windows X servers in
past years, but frankly I like cygwin's better than any of them.
