[wplug] win4lin?

[Luquilla Hughes]

Emacs=>8 buffers & the top buffer in (Emacs for) windows is the clipboard.

>From: David Tessitor <dttessitor at home.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] win4lin?
>Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:14:14 -0500
>
>You can get a free demo download on the netraverse site.  It's the full
>thing with a limited session duration of one hour, at which time a times up
>reminder pops up increasingly as one persists.  Still it sounds like a good
>way to test it out and for most uses an hour on Windoz is all that would be
>necessary.
>
>Some reviews say it runs Win programs faster than when run natively under
>Windoz alone.  The conjecture is that it's the faster ext2 and Reiserfs 
>file
>systems that are responsible.  That must be a big jump, because most people
>don't recognize an operating speed increase unless it's around 4 times
>faster (sort of like with sound and decibels).
>
>Netraverse points out that you can't cut and paste between the operating
>systems, though.  The work around they give is to copy to a file instead of
>the clipboard.  Since the clipboard doesn't always work with Linux apps
>anyway, it might be an acceptable solution.  If that can be automated to go
>from each respective clipboard to a given file, that would work fine.
>
>(While we're at it, it would be nice to have several layers of clipboard
>buffering to hold multiple cuts without losing them.  I've come across a
>couple programs which allow that and it's a nice feature.  I've more than
>once wished it was in place when I've absentmindedly cut twice before
>pasting out the buffer and lost some recent writing before it was saved; it
>always seems to be from seeing a quick one or two word edit move and making
>it while in the middle of figuring just were I'm supposed to paste down the
>numerous paragraph move I've already cut -- ouch!)
>
>Dave
>
>=======
>
>lt wrote:
>
> > Luquilla Hughes wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anybody tried out Win4lin ?
> > > http://www.netraverse.com/
> > >
> >
> > snip<
> > IMHO, it's worth $59 to not have to use Windows as your primary OS.
> >
> > PS.  Sound works as well.
> >
> > --
> > Lance Tost, ltost at pobox.com
>
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