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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Emacs 28 pretest MS Windows snapshots
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 09:31:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f434ea69-89af-4ae1-98eb-8a2bd5b92781@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d05bfsy8.fsf@russet.org.uk>

> > I don't want to "install" Emacs, if that means doing something
> > more than just putting it into a folder.  I want to have
> > multiple Emacs versions, in different folders.  I just use the
> > executables that are in their bin folders.
> 
> The installer does indeed just put stuff into a folder. It does add a
> shortcut to the start menu IIRC, although you can switch that
> off. Different versions will work, although I can't remember how it
> would handle multiple copies of the same declared version
> (i.e. snapshots).

FWIW -

I don't want a shortcut in the Start menu, for sure. I create my own shortcuts to runemacs commands with specific options, and more than one per snapshot or release.

And I do have multiple snapshots for the same declared version.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-04 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-02 14:38 Emacs 28 pretest MS Windows snapshots Drew Adams
2020-07-02 17:09 ` Phillip Lord
2020-07-02 17:35   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-02 17:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-04 10:54       ` Phillip Lord
2020-07-04 11:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-04 13:09           ` Phillip Lord
2020-07-04 13:16             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-04 14:16               ` Phillip Lord
2020-07-04 14:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-04 14:54                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-04 17:21                   ` Phillip Lord
2020-07-04 17:41                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-04 17:49                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-04 21:45                       ` Phillip Lord
2020-07-05 14:19                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-05 21:04                           ` Phillip Lord
2020-07-04 14:19               ` Phillip Lord
2020-07-02 17:37   ` Drew Adams
2020-07-04 10:57     ` Phillip Lord
2020-07-04 16:31       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-07-04 17:26         ` Phillip Lord

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