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Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows
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Ismael Valladolid Torres |
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Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows |
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Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:01:22 +0100 |
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Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
>
>> Indeed I prefer not using *installers*. Nevertheless where can I
>> download that EmacsW32 distro?
>>
>> Cordially, Ismael
>>
>>
> It is here: http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html
>
> And since you said you do not like installers could you perhaps give me
> some feedback?;-)
Not much feedback to give. Windows is a dangerous place to live in and
in order to avoid viruses and spyware I usually prefer being a non
administrative user. As a non administrative user, when emacs comes in
form of a zipped or tarred archive I can simply uncompress it and add
the resulting bin to my personal path. If I needed to run an installer,
before I would need to contact my IT department in order to become an
administrator.
Moreover I am simply used to UNIX way of life where all the
configuration goes to plain text files under /etc or under your home in
form of dotfiles. Usually I am not aware of how much garbage an
installer puts in my registry, so better simply uncompress things and
run them being in full control of their configuration.
My way: Getting a compiled emacs archive, uncompressing it to C:\emacs,
adding C:\emacs\bin to my path, setting HOME to C:\cygwin\home\ismaeval2
and putting there my .emacs, adding a shortcut to gnuclienw.exe to my
SendTo folder, and that's it!
Hope this makes sense. :)
Cordially, Ismael
--
Dropping science like when Galileo dropped his orange
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- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, (continued)
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Ismael Valladolid Torres, 2005/11/24
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2005/11/24
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Ismael Valladolid Torres, 2005/11/25
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2005/11/25
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows,
Ismael Valladolid Torres <=
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2005/11/26
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Ismael Valladolid Torres, 2005/11/27
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2005/11/27
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Ismael Valladolid Torres, 2005/11/28
- Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Roman Belenov, 2005/11/28
RE: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows, Neil Mackie, 2005/11/23