Gary Oberbrunner <ga...@genarts.com> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Carson Chittom" <carson.chit...@mspb.ms.gov> >> To: "Vijay Lakshminarayanan" <laks...@gmail.com> >> Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org >> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 12:27:21 PM >> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Gnu Emacs >> Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laks...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> but it >> just seemed odd to me to install Cygwin just for its OpenSSL/GnuTLS >> and not use its Emacs. > > This is normal. I use cygwin for the Unix utils (mv/cp/ln, ls, file, > grep, less, zsh, diff, patch etc.) but do not use its perl, python or > emacs. The filesystem and path issues (/cygdrive etc.) quickly become > too severe no matter how you adjust the cygwin mount points.
I install Cygwin to c:/, so the cygwin path for the c drive is just /, which works for both Windows and Cygwin apps. That makes things much simpler. -- -- Stephe
