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Manage sandboxes for alternative Emacs configurations
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Generating shell scripts in Windows #3

Open akirak opened 6 years ago

akirak commented 6 years ago

As pointed out in this thread, Playground seems to require a tweak in order to make it run on Windows. I don't have a Windows machine, and I didn't consider support for Windows in the beginning, but the adaptation itself doesn't look difficult.

To investigate how Emacs runs on Windows, I tried to install cygwin onto Wine, but somehow it failed to install. Nor did I understand how to install the GNU version of Windows onto Wine. I am currently downloading a Windows VM image for testing. I will work on this issue later.

basil-conto commented 6 years ago

See (emacs) Find Init and the last few paragraphs of (emacs) Minibuffer File.

akirak commented 6 years ago

Thank you for your information, @basil-conto.

Actually, Playground seems to work even for Windows. I've tried the GNU version on Windows 7 (the VM image with IE8), and playground-checkout command successfully starts another Emacs instance. Emacs for Windows correctly expands ~USER path as in UNIX platforms (see this gist. It cannot generate shell scripts though, because Windows doesn't have a shell.