How to best integrate Emacs and Cygwin?

Question

There are a ton of ways to integrate Cygwin with Emacs on Windows. EmacsWiki shows a few ideas. Here are the options that I\'ve found:

1. Use the Emacs that com

Answer 1

I like the xemacs version that you get from the Cygwin setup program. Works out of the box, the Alt key maps to Meta just fine, and the bash shell buffer is there whenever you need it.