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

FWIW, I use the normal GNU Emacs Windows releases, and I use Cygwin. I've never had any problems, but I don't do much with Cygwin outside Emacs. Oh, and I'm using an old version of Cygwin (with all versions of Emacs).

For setup, I load these two files, in order:

• http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/cygwin-mount.el
• http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/setup-cygwin.el