[SoftwareMaven]

Very similar to my view of Emacs. It doesn't matter whether I'm on my Mac, my work Ubuntu, or SSHed into a Debian server, my development environment is the same. With Cygwin, I can even make it work on Windows (heaven forbid! ;). It is nice to have the biggest context change be "where is my source here?"

[jfb]

Emacs runs native on Windows; no need for Cygwin.

[SoftwareMaven]

Of course, but a reasonable chunk of my development work happens in shells. It continues to shrink over time, but there are a lot of things pipes can handle better than lisp. :) I would be lost without it.