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RE: managing multiple emacs
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at xerox dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 19:28:37 +0000
- Subject: RE: managing multiple emacs
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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!
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.
--Ken Nellis