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From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
Subject: Re: managing multiple emacs
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:52:42 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tuesday,  9 Jun 2015, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> From: Jim Reisert AD1C 
>> 
>> > 3. I don't have the Cygwin emacs-w32 package installed; my Windows
>> version is outside the
>> > Cygwin environment.
>> 
>> Don't install GNU Emacs for Windows.  Get rid of it.  Install the
>> Cygwin emacs-w32 package instead.  You can use this in Windows as long
>> as cygwin/bin is in your Windows path.  I did this years ago and have
>> never looked back.  It works great!

(If you look on the Emacs lists, you can find people giving the
opposite advice - don't bother with Cygwin Emacs; just use the native
Emacs.)

> Thanx for that advice, but since I already have it installed, and without
> any reason given to change, it's hard to justify swapping it out. If there
> are good reasons to do so, I'll be glad to do it.

There's no good reason.  I've been running both native Windows Emacs
and Cygwin Emacs for years with the same .emacs.

-- 
Will


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