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To: fabrice.popineau@centralesupelec.fr, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>, Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>, Emacs Org mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

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I switched from Cygwin to Msys2 a year or two ago and it's been very good.
The pacman-based package management is very good.  The only thing to watch
out for is that there are actually 2 gcc suites and if you want to build
automake projects (like many open source projects), you'll want to be using
the Mingw gcc and NOT the Msys gcc.  ConEmu is a great terminal program to
use in conjunction with Msys2

 I also recommend opinionated Emacs distros.  I used to use Prelude but
I've been using Spacemacs (in Emacs mode) for quite a while, now.  I like
Spacemacs because your loaded packages are explicitly in your .spacemacs
file and it's easy to reconstruct which packages you have loaded from that.


-- Bill

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:25 PM Fabrice Popineau <
fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr> wrote:

> 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
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">I switched from Cygwin to Msys2 a year or two ago and it&#=
39;s been very good.=C2=A0 The pacman-based package management is very good=
.=C2=A0 The only thing to watch out for is that there are actually 2 gcc su=
ites and if you want to build automake projects (like many open source proj=
ects), you&#39;ll want to be using the Mingw gcc and NOT the Msys gcc.=C2=
=A0 ConEmu is a great terminal program to use in conjunction with Msys2<div=
><br></div><div>=C2=A0I also recommend opinionated Emacs distros.=C2=A0 I u=
sed to use Prelude but I&#39;ve been using Spacemacs (in Emacs mode) for qu=
ite a while, now.=C2=A0 I like Spacemacs because your loaded packages are e=
xplicitly in your .spacemacs file and it&#39;s easy to reconstruct which pa=
ckages you have loaded from that.</div><div><br><div><br></div><div>-- Bill=
</div></div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Tue, A=
ug 23, 2016 at 12:25 PM Fabrice Popineau &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:fabrice.popi=
neau@supelec.fr">fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><block=
quote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc=
 solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div c=
lass=3D"gmail_quote">2016-08-23 10:24 GMT+02:00 Eric S Fraga <span dir=3D"l=
tr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk" target=3D"_blank">e.fraga@ucl.=
ac.uk</a>&gt;</span>:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:=
0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Tuesday, 2=
3 Aug 2016 at 01:34, Grant Rettke wrote:<br>
&gt; I found Cygwin to make things more difficult for Emacs so I installed<=
br>
&gt; the plain old Windows Emacs and did the following:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; <a href=3D"https://github.com/grettke/help/blob/master/help.md#windows=
" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://github.com/grettke/help/blob=
/master/help.md#windows</a><br>
<br>
</span>Thanks.=C2=A0 I&#39;ll check this out.<br>
<br>
If I ever have to use a Windows system at all, I want bash &amp; emacs and<=
br>
cygwin makes it very easy (for me).</blockquote><div>=C2=A0</div></div></di=
v></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quo=
te"><div>I always found Cygwin to be a PIA when working under =C2=A0Windows=
.</div><div>I vastly prefer to use msys2+mingw64. Emacs 25 compiles out of =
the box</div><div>as a native w64 app and you get bash + all the tools you =
may want.</div><div>My $0.02</div></div></div></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div c=
lass=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Fabrice=
</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>

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