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Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8)
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Yeşim Erke-Magent |
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Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) |
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Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Friday, August 2, 2013 12:44:24 AM UTC-4, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Friday, August 2, 2013 5:09:16 AM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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> > > I wish I had Unix running on my machine!
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> >
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> > Do you need help with that?
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> Since this seems to be such a FAQ, attempting to say something. Hopefully
> more windows-aware folks will amend.
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> Many people using windows find need for unix-ish facilities/features/feel.
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> Setting up native windows emacs is a first (but not last!) step.
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> cygwin is considered a full-featured but somewhat heavyweight answer to this
> need
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> mingw is a somewhat lighter solution.
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> Some comparison here
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/771756/what-is-the-difference-between-cygwin-and-mingw
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> You can also set up diff/grep etc alone.
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> [I believe Eli has posted the link a few days back...]
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> Other solutions:
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> Win+Linux side-by-side: Make your system multibootable with grub.
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> This is an old solution. In my most recent bundled-with-win-8 laptop, copying
> files from ubuntu and windows is not working as it used to. Seems to be a
> uefi/gpt problem.
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> Windows-inside-linux: wubi can be installed as a normal windows program
> inside windows and was quite popular but again seems to be suffering gpt/uefi
> related problems.
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> Linux-in-VM-in-windows: I know some friends who swear by VMware. No
> experience myself.
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> Wine: windows emulator inside linux. Will run many (not all!) windows
> programs on a vanilla gnu/linux
I installed cygwin after receiving a reply to my question. I added it to the
Environment Variable, PATH (please see my previous comment) but cannot still
make it work. I guess the major problem is I can hardly remember Unix commands
as well as Emacs as it has been over a decade I used them.