I find the git bash shell adequate for most of my needs. I haven't used cygwin in many years.
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Tuesday, 23 Aug 2016 at 01:34, Grant Rettke wrote: >> I found Cygwin to make things more difficult for Emacs so I installed >> the plain old Windows Emacs and did the following: >> >> https://github.com/grettke/help/blob/master/help.md#windows > > Thanks. I'll check this out. > > If I ever have to use a Windows system at all, I want bash & emacs and > cygwin makes it very easy (for me). -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu