From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:44:30 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <002c01c48c4c$fb7071b0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <003e01c48946$a8ebfad0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <011201c48a06$469eb6e0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <016f01c48a10$f6081090$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <001801c48a37$995d27f0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c48a5a$Blat.v2.2.2$412bdd60@zahav.net.il> <412DFF1B.9010603@ig.com.br> <16686.4094.173795.914606@tron.eng.it> <004001c48b8d$f622ec70$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <412E20A5.3050407@ig.com.br> <000d01c48b9c$763a5570$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <007801c48bba$80b4d890$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 17:45:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0ivJ-0000Je-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:45:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0izy-0005F9-TC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0izp-0005Eq-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0izo-0005ER-3D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0izo-0005EN-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:50:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.107] (helo=av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0iuz-00039M-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id D823637EE0; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:45:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C601037E48; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:45:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t3o58p55.telia.com [195.252.56.55]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 93F8637E52; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:45:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26575 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26575 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gian Uberto Lauri" > LB> Surprise again. Do you mean that Mac and Linux (to leave out more technical > LB> alternatives) do not have something like Windows Explorer where you can > LB> double-click (or something similar) on a HTML file to open it? > > Mac does it. Linux could if you use KDE or Gnome, bloating stuff not at > all this necessary. Even if free. > > Many Emacs users under Linux or Unix just use a plain window manager > under Unix or Linux and something called command line ( :) :) ). Some > of them claim that bash is almost as powerful as Emacs :). Personally I always use the command line because it is much faster. The ms windows Command Prompt on NT integrates this feature with the command line. That is very important for me. I hoped that this was an available interface for handling files on most major modern operating systems. - Lennart