Short answer: NTEmacs.

I have been using NTEmacs (not Xemacs) since 1998. And I've never looked back. I also use emacs on XWindows and emacs-nox in text mode. All these flavours of emacs are driven from my same .emacs files.

NTEmacs is great. I prefer it over XEmacs cause XEmacs appears to be missing bits. I could be wrong but I just prefer the raw power of the real thing.

I use cperl-mode mostly, and combinations of html-mode/mmm-mode for editing MASON files.

Emacs is hard to learn, but not as hard to learn as vi, as you can customise everything out of Emacs. cua-mode.el is a great method of simulating cut and paste behaviour that Win32 has.

The Emacs FAQ is a great thing to read, particularly the NTEmacs FAQ. You'll find it linked from the Emacs FAQ.

I also keep clear of Cygwin.. I tried it once, now I much prefer using ActiveState perl for Win32, and MinGW if I need to compile native C apps.

A Note About ActiveState Perl

Frequently one wants to install modules off CPAN, and sometimes activestate doesn't have a pre-packaged PPM suitable. In this case running through the make process for that module is something you'll have to do.

If you download MinGW then be sure to install the CPAN module ExtUtils::FakeConfig. Once you've done that then you can make pretty much any module off CPAN by typing make -mConfig_m makefile.pl. That will generate a makefile compatible with the MinGW compiler should the module include C routines that require compilation.

In reply to Re: OT: Xemacs or Emacs? by monarch
in thread OT: Xemacs or Emacs? by tphyahoo

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