2016-08-23 10:24 GMT+02:00 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@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