GNU Emacs on Windows system, viable ?

[Xavier Maillard]

Heya,

Due to some changes on my laptop setup, I have to (maybe temporarily) switchover to MS system fulltime.
The sole question I have is : is using GNU Emacs on Microsoft OS is Something easy ; I mean, is RMAIL functionning on MS ?

A friend of mine told me to use chocolatery to install all my Tools (here it means : Emacs, clojure dev environnment, etc).

Thanks for your feedback.

Optionnal question : will a RMAIL file coming from my old (dead) computer running GNU/linux be working as is directly on my MS box ?

Thank you for your help

Xavier

[Eli Zaretskii]

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:50:07 +0100
The sole question I have is : is using GNU Emacs on Microsoft OS is Something easy ; I mean, is RMAIL functionning on MS ?

I'm writing this in Rmail on Windows.

Optionnal question : will a RMAIL file coming from my old (dead) computer running GNU/linux be working as is directly on my MS box ?

Yes.

[Xavier Maillard]

Hello,

Post by Eli Zaretskii

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:50:07 +0100
The sole question I have is : is using GNU Emacs on Microsoft OS is Something easy ; I mean, is RMAIL >> functionning on MS ?

I'm writing this in Rmail on Windows.

Good ! Do you use a specific GNU Emacs flavour (ie. Cygwin or choco or Something else ? ) ?

Post by Eli Zaretskii

Optionnal question : will a RMAIL file coming from my old (dead) computer running GNU/linux be working as is directly on my MS box ?

Yes.

I tried it with a small file and it seems it works perfectly ! That’s nice !

[Eli Zaretskii]

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 23:04:02 +0100

Post by Eli Zaretskii
I'm writing this in Rmail on Windows.

Good ! Do you use a specific GNU Emacs flavour (ie. Cygwin or choco or Something else ? ) ?

A native MS-Windows build using MinGW.

[Phillip Lord]

If you are prepared to live on the bleeding edge, you might want to try
the Emacs-27 pre-tests which come with pretty much all the tools included.

Post by Xavier Maillard
Heya,
Due to some changes on my laptop setup, I have to (maybe temporarily)
switchover to MS system fulltime. The sole question I have is : is using
GNU Emacs on Microsoft OS is Something easy ; I mean, is RMAIL
functionning on MS ?
A friend of mine told me to use chocolatery to install all my Tools (here
it means : Emacs, clojure dev environnment, etc).
Thanks for your feedback.
Optionnal question : will a RMAIL file coming from my old (dead) computer
running GNU/linux be working as is directly on my MS box ?
Thank you for your help
Xavier