Re: Need help installing NTemacs -- no evident README or INSTALL file

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:41 AM, David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.3.1273159143.5381.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> Lennart Borgman  <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:18 AM, David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
>>> A friend wants to install ntemacs on xp, and we're
>>> not sure just how to do it.
>>
>>
>>I know nothing about the installer used by ntemacs, but you could try
>>emacsw32. The patched version probably does everything you want. It is
>>a normal installer so you can uninstall it as you do with other
>>programs:
>>
>>  http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl
>>
>>PS: I am going to update the patched version rather soon, but don't
>>hold your breath.
>>
>>
>
> Confused as just what to download.  What I got is this huge
> "installer"(?):
>
>  c:/Downloads:
>  total used in directory 6837130 available 187438764
>  -rwxrwxrwx   1 David    root      31609612 05-06 19:29 
> Emacs-23-BzrU100220-EmacsW32-1.58.exe
>  drwxrwxrwx   1 David    root             0 05-06 19:29 .
>
>
> Pretty big installer.
>
> Is this the file you (Lennart) wanted me to get?


No, you probably want the patched version instead. (It is quite easy
to update it when I have uploaded a new version. Just download and run
the installer again.)

The file with the patched version is
Emacs-23-CvsP091103-EmacsW32-1.58.exe. Just download this and run it.
This file contains Emacs (slightly patched) and some GNU utilities you
might want (grep etc). It should work OTB.

The normal way to start the patched version is to call emacsclient
some way. Unlike the unpatched version this will start Emacs if it is
not already running.