Oh wise and whimsical monks, I am on winxp with activestate, and have been thinking of starting to use cygwin and emacs to manage my perl.

Has anyone an opinion of which flavor of emacs I should use? One with a native windows installer, and never mind x-cygwin for now? Emacs on Cygwin? X-Emacs on cygwin?

I'm not trying to start a flame war, and I have looked at Editors for perl. I would jsut like to know if anyone has dinked around with this and has an opinion as to which flavor of emacs will get me up and running fastest with windows, and why.

When I did this I while ago I do remember it was kind of a pain to get started, ie, copying and pasting with the clipboard was nontransparent and required changing some settings. If there's any kind of tutorials on emacs/cygwin gotchas that I should read first this time around, would like to hear about this as well. Thanks!

PS Emacs vs xEmacs in case anyone wants a look.

In reply to OT: Xemacs or Emacs? by tphyahoo

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