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Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:53:42 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Of course, if you commit to use Emacs you can make sure to install these
> tools in one of several ways it can be done today (Cygwin. MSYS, natively
> compiled, etc.) but users could be up and running much faster if they did
> not have to do this. If you are trying out Emacs and compare it with other
> editors today, where some of this are also built in but work without these
> external tools, you might give up.

Maybe streamlining the MSYS way to install Emacs is the easiest/best way
to solve this problem?


        Stefan




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