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I use Vim on Windows. I tried to learn Emacs but I keep running into roadblocks because of poor Windows compatibility of plugins.
by Yuioup 12y ago
I use Vim on Windows. I tried to learn Emacs but I keep running into roadblocks because of poor Windows compatibility of plugins.
- mkesper 12y agoIf you need them, you might consider using the Cygwin(64) version of Emacs. The "w-32" version gives best of both worlds, as it does not need an X server. Be sure to start it with a shortcut so it finds $HOME etc.: C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c emacs-w32.exe
- elwell 12y agoI'm currently a Windows Emacs user. I'm curious, which plugins in particular gave you trouble?
- Yuioup 12y agoIdeally I wanted to set up an Emacs environment for Python development. I tried to install the plugins mentioned on this page: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PythonProgrammingInEmacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PythonProgrammingInEmacs Couln't get flymake and pyflakes to work. pymacs was a non-starter so I couln't use ropemacs. I also tried CEDET, but that was an epic fail.
- barrkel 12y agoI use Cygwin emacs in the terminal (mintty). The experience I get from this is very close to Linux (emacs-nox in rxvt).