# HG changeset patch # User Oleksandr Gavenko # Date 1609749543 -7200 # Node ID a90ed5421848f82815bb5c9aa682086d4847186c # Parent 964ca46a467cc09af6c98e307c29ae68f20982de Important packages. diff -r 964ca46a467c -r a90ed5421848 cygwin.rst --- a/cygwin.rst Mon Jan 04 10:30:27 2021 +0200 +++ b/cygwin.rst Mon Jan 04 10:39:03 2021 +0200 @@ -12,6 +12,21 @@ http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html Official mirror list. +Important packages: + +* ``bash-completion`` - for human CLI. +* ``emacs-w32`` - Cygwin's Emacs with native Windows widgets! +* ``vim`` - let's have "improved" VI. +* ``aspell``, ``aspell-en`` - for spell checking inside Emacs. +* ``curl`` - for HTTP troubleshooting. +* ``wget`` - for recursive downloading, also required by ``apt-cyg``. +* VCS packages:: + + mercurial git git-completion git-svn subversion fossil + +* ``make`` - my favorite automation tool. +* ``the_silver_searcher`` - human ``grep``. + Configuration =============