Thanks Tim! I didn't know about this. Ive installed it and it seems to work very nice! I will continue to test it and maybe scrap both vmware (been using for 10+ years) and cygwin. Thanks alot!
Johan On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:12 AM, Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Probably no real help, but win10 is (or soon will be) bundling in bash > shell, which may address many of the reasons to use Cygwin. From posts > I've seen on a number of lists, I would not be surprised to see cygwin > slowly decline into obscurity. I see little interest in the emacs devel > list for cygwin since the native windows version has matured (and it has > been suggested, is the largest emacs user base). > > Having bash, a native emacs and even a 'better' system shell in > powershell (better than bat scripts and VB that is), at some point, you > will likely have to switch and I can say, it is much less distasteful > than it was (I've been using Linux since 1993 and Emacs since 97 and am > also forced to run windows at work). > > Alternatively, do what I actually do - run vmware and Linux as a > virtual - technically, I'm running the work SOE and within policy! When > I absolutely have to do things in windows, I use native Emacs and a > small amount of powershell, but plan to use the bash shell once I find > time to sort it all out. > > Tim > > Johan Ekh writes: > > > Thanks Adam > > > > I've tried the native windows version and it does not have this problem. > > But I'm an old school Linux user that is forced to use windows at work. > > I've managed to set up Cygwin and it works quite well, in fact I think > > Emacs is working very well except for the issue in this post. Not slow. > > Thanks anyway. / Johan > > > > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Adam Porter <a...@alphapapa.net> wrote: > > > >> This isn't much help, but the best suggestion I have is to try the > >> non-Cygwin, native Windows build. I use the Cygwin build myself, but it > >> is inherently slow compared to Linux builds for some reason. It takes > >> probably 10-20 times as long to startup, and everything I do it in it is > >> slow compared to in Linux. Maybe the native Windows build will perform > >> better. > >> > >> > >> > > > -- > Tim Cross >
