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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> writes:

> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:
>
>> And I've used it for over ten years, which made me even enjoy Windows.
>> I had to bring together a lot of programs, though.  For instance, when
>> you load ESHELL, you still need various UNIX programs to be comfortable
>> such as find, cat and so on.
>
> I think enjoying Windows is taking it a little too far. But I do enjoy
> Emacs, even in Windows, especially since I discovered ORG mode.
>
> For installing Emacs on Windows, in my opinion it's best done now from
> MSYS2. They even say this on
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#nonfree
>
> "MSYS2 users can install Emacs (64bits build) with the following:
>
> pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs"
>
> So MSYS2 first for all the command line tools and others. The Konsole
> terminal is also now available via MSYS2.

I second that.  Funny---Windows must behave like UNIX so that we can use
it. :)