Re: [h-e-w] cygwin setup guide / Emacs from Bash Question

[Stephen Leake]

"Rich Hilliard" <address@hidden> writes:

> Stephen Leake writes:
> 
> | You've got things backwards; you're supposed to start Emacs every
> | morning, and never leave it. Only run bash from Emacs :).
> 
> | That's what I do.
> 
> That's what I do, too.  
> ^C^C even works!  
> I must be running a really old version of cygwin (B20).

Yes, this is very old. At least, in the "internet" sense. It's not
older than my daughter :).

> Is there any reason to upgrade?

Yes. Everything else works much better. A full Cygwin install comes
very close to providing all the tools of a full Debian Linux install
(well, for the tools _I_ use, anyway; that's probably not the same set
you want). I can generally compile a Gnu package under Cygwin, but
sometimes not.

Depends on what you need. There is a description of what is currently
available from Cygwin at http://cygwin.com/packages/

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-- Stephe