I am an old emacs-on-linux dog who has difficulty using windows. For
various reasons I need to program in windows.

Some egs. of my problems

-- M-x shell shows all kinds of control characters
-- Paths are /-separated some places and \-separated others

and so on and so forth.

So some questions:
1. Is there some help/wiki etc for folks like me

Others will give you additional (and perhaps contradictory ;-)) help, but
here are my 2 cents:

1. Emacs Wiki is your friend: http://www.emacswiki.org. You will find lots
of help there for using Emacs with Windows. This category page is a good
starting place: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryWThirtyTwo.

2. There is a mailing list just for Emacs on Windows:
help-emacs-windows@gnu.org. Also very helpful.

3. I use Cygwin with a native Windows build of Emacs. I don't use a Cygwin
build of Windows. Either way, Cygwin is great. No problems with paths, and
so on.

4. See Lennart Borgman's EmacsW32 installer for Emacs on Windows. It
includes several special features (customizations). I prefer to use a
vanilla Emacs Windows binary, but I think most people use EmacsW32:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32.

HTH.

Drew Adams wrote:

I can second this advice. I've been using NTEmacs in conjunction with
Cygwin for some time now and am completely happy with the combination.
Look for cygwin-mount.el so that you can use your Cygwin paths within
Emacs.

- Will

rustom napisał(a):

Welcome to the club. ;)

[...]

I found this site extremely useful:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

HTH,
Rob

On 4 Feb, 14:38, Rob Wolfe wrote:

Keep in mind that a lot of the information there is out of date, so if
you see something there that purports to be working around a
particular problem, check that the problem exists before blindly
copying the workaround into your .emacs.

On Feb 4, 7:38 pm, Rob Wolfe wrote:

Thanks. I was looking around for some such

Jason Rumney wrote:

rustom gmail.com> writes:

You're the first one I've heard of ;)

(sorry, this is meant to provide laughs rather than real information)

Joel

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Rob Wolfe writes:

OP gone, so I'm replying to this one...

Have a look at http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html ---
wouldn't know how to use Windows without it! Essentially it adds
Emacs Keybindings to _all_ Windows programs (can be disabled on a
per-program basis, of course, and also configured per program).

In fact, I now wish something like this would exist for Linux :-)

Hope this helps --- it certainly helped me!

Sven

Sven Utcke writes:

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