Maintainer for Emacs w32 faq

Maintainer for Emacs w32 faq

[Lennart Borgman]

In a recent message I asked if someone knew where to find Steve Kemp and if
he is still the maintainer of Emacs w32 faq. I found him and he says he has
not been that for a few good years.

Steve seems to have done a big job, there are a lot of information in the
faq. However as time has passed half of the links in this faq are now dead.
Probably some of the info has aged and is no longer quite relevant.

I think a maintainer is needed. Perhaps I could do it, but I am not an Emacs
guru. Deciding what is relevant and what is not could be hard.

- Lennart

Re: Maintainer for Emacs w32 faq

[Jason Rumney]

"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> In a recent message I asked if someone knew where to find Steve Kemp and if
> he is still the maintainer of Emacs w32 faq. I found him and he says he has
> not been that for a few good years.
>
> Steve seems to have done a big job, there are a lot of information in the
> faq. However as time has passed half of the links in this faq are now dead.
> Probably some of the info has aged and is no longer quite relevant.
>
> I think a maintainer is needed. Perhaps I could do it, but I am not an Emacs
> guru. Deciding what is relevant and what is not could be hard.

It might be an idea to ask for volunteers on help-emacs-windows@gnu.org.

Maintaining the FAQ is not something that should be limited to 
developers, whose limited time is probably better spent improving
Emacs.

Re: Maintainer for Emacs w32 faq

[Lennart Borgman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Rumney" <jasonr@gnu.org>


> > I think a maintainer is needed. Perhaps I could do it, but I am not an
Emacs
> > guru. Deciding what is relevant and what is not could be hard.
>
> It might be an idea to ask for volunteers on help-emacs-windows@gnu.org.
>
> Maintaining the FAQ is not something that should be limited to
> developers, whose limited time is probably better spent improving
> Emacs.

I have posted a message there now.

- Lennart

Re: Maintainer for Emacs w32 faq

[Richard Stallman]

    I think a maintainer is needed. Perhaps I could do it, but I am not an Emacs
    guru. Deciding what is relevant and what is not could be hard.

If you just update details that are now wrong, it is better than
nothing.

Re: Maintainer for Emacs w32 faq

[Alex Schroeder]

"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> In a recent message I asked if someone knew where to find Steve Kemp and if
> he is still the maintainer of Emacs w32 faq. I found him and he says he has
> not been that for a few good years.

Is this just a web resource or actually distributed with Emacs?  How
about migrating all the questions and their answers to the Emacs Wiki?
Then we don't need maintainer roles because anybody can be a
maintainer.

I've appended the current CategoryWThirtyTwo...

Alex.
-- 
.O.  http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/
..O  Schroeder's fifth law:
OOO  Never accept more work than you can handle in one night of hacking.



Where to get it:

* Official supported binaries
  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled
* Unofficial unsupported CVS binary http://www.crasseux.com/emacs/
* and another: http://nqmacs.sf.net
* or build it yourself BuildingOnWindowsTableofContents

Help:

* FAQ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
* Mailling list http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-emacs-windows/

Installation:

* WThirtyTwoWinZip -- using <nowiki>WinZip</nowiki> to unpack
  <tt>.tar.gz</tt> files
* WThirtyTwoInstallationKit -- an installation program for GNU Emacs
  on MS Windows

MS Tips and Tricks:

* WThirtyTwoDiredContextMenu -- display Explorer's context menu
* WThirtyTwoNetSend -- send messages using the NT command net send
* MakeSmartShortcuts -- seeing is believing, try it out
* MsdnHelp -- Get MSDN help right from Emacs.
* EdiffOnWThirtyTwo -- using ediff in a W32 environment
* WThirtyTwoFontifiedRegionToClipboard -- well...
* WThirtyTwoBrowseNetDrives -- To browse the net drives!
* WThirtyTwoMsgBox -- make emacs bring up a simple message box using
  vbscript
* WThirtyTwoFindDired -- simple w32-version of find-dired
* WThirtyTwoSymlinks -- parse .lnk files
* VisEmacs - Use emacs as the text editor for Visual Studio
* CatagoryIntellimouse - Information about using an IntelliMouse with
  emacs

MS applications:

* MsOutlook -- use Emacs as the editor for Microsoft Outlook
* [[XKeymacs]] --  use the Emacs keybindings everywhere
 
MS shell:
* http://www.gnusoftware.com/Emacs/Lisp/w32-shellex.el
* WThirtyTwoShellExecute -- execute any of the 'Explorer verbs'
  available for a file or directory.
* MsShellExecute -- more Shell Execute stuff
* ContextMenu -- adding "Open with Emacs" to the windows context menu

Printing:

* PrintEasyAndWithColorsOnWindows
* PrintFromWindowsExplorer
* Printing under windows http://freebooks.by.ru/view/EmacsIn24h/emacs018.htm
* From the FAQ, printing under windows:
  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq6.html#printing

W32 development:

* CygWin -- using Emacs with (or within) Cygwin
* MinGW -- using GCC directly without Cygwin library

Reading proprietary file formats:

* UnDoc -- view MS Word files in Emacs 
* AntiWord -- interfacing with the antiword program

Forks: Other Windows32 Emacs applications

* Meadow, Multilingual enhancement to gnu Emacs with ADvantages Over
  Windows. A Japanese-language oriented GNU Emacs fork with Cygwin
  like installer. http://www.meadowy.org/meadow/