From: Jay Walker <jwalker@conserviscorp.com>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>, 24040@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24040: download instructions incomplete
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:15:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAByNYzH4YYcYN_wKmGQ+7Aqtts=1tOA1DLUrWbGhwh+uQkcVkg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8h7yqv3.fsf@russet.org.uk>
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Wow, you guys made a major improvement in this area, I am so happy!! Way to
go!!!!!!!!!!
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:53 AM Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
wrote:
>
> I entirely agree with this. Combined with the single multiple-top-level
> zip file, the windows download is not obvious. And using Emacs without
> having msys installed is a limited experience because it misses lots of
> DLLs that it needs.
>
> The README with the pre-test binaries really sucks als (my fault). This
> situation could be improved significantly.
>
> Phil
>
>
> Jay Walker <jwalker@conserviscorp.com> writes:
>
> > Yes, thank you so much for your help! Ok, so I am assuming to be
> completely
> > new at Emacs. Based on the Windows Download instructions, but also OSX, I
> > can´t really tell what to do. Following what the website says, it
> appears I
> > can either download a zip file from a mirror, or get MSYS2 in order to
> > download it that way. It seemed that MSYS2 was a better approach because
> > downloading it gives me a bunch of files I have no idea what to do with.
> So
> > once I have gotten MSYS2 (a link would be helpful!), I enter the command
> > and see that it has downloaded. But what's next? Perhaps it would be
> useful
> > to have a link to the next steps to getting emacs running. I type in
> > ´emacs´ and it is unrecognized. Do you feel me on what I am getting at?
> > Thanks for your patience and attentiveness!
> > Jay
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:42 PM Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Jay Walker <jwalker@conserviscorp.com> writes:
> >>
> >> Hi Jay,
> >>
> >> > I followed your download instructions and found they are so lacking,
> >> please
> >> > update!
> >>
> >> Which download instructions are you talking about? Was it the
> >> instructions for Windows installation found on the Emacs website?
> >>
> >> Nico
> >>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-25 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-20 15:56 bug#24040: download instructions incomplete Jay Walker
2016-07-20 20:42 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-20 20:57 ` Jay Walker
2016-07-20 22:18 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-21 1:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-21 12:57 ` Jay Walker
2016-07-21 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-24 15:53 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-25 13:15 ` Jay Walker [this message]
2016-07-26 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-26 16:40 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-24 15:30 ` Nicolas Petton
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