scott wrote:
>> Don't worry.  I won't evangelize, but the word 'once' is clearly the 
>> problem, as
>> in, "I tried running once, but I didn't win, so I gave up."
> 
> Why bother when there are easier programs to learn?  Get a proper 
> Windows-based text editor that follows the MS style guidelines (ie not 
> one that has been "ported" from Linux) and all menus and keyboard 
> shortcuts will be totally familiar and require no learning at all to get 
> started.
> 
> Really, I wish MS would ban software that doesn't at least use the 
> standard font, menus, toolbars, dialogs etc.

On the other hand, if you've been using Emacs for centuries, having it 
suddenly work all differently just becuase it's on Windows is likely to 
be mighty frustrating.

The really Fun Stuff is things like ported Linux programs that assume 
that your shell is named /bin/sh and so on. (The Emacs FAQ says that if 
you try to open a shell using Emacs on Windows, it bombs for this very 
reason.) Really, Windows is very, *very* different to Unix, and just 
recompiling the source code is insufficient to fix that.

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