From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Shug Boabby" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Easy" Windows Emacs Date: 4 Jun 2005 14:26:50 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1117920410.651627.276900@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1117898093.081644.298490@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87br6m86c6.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <1117903695.355175.316140@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87r7fh7skr.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117920284 9007 80.91.229.2 (4 Jun 2005 21:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 21:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 04 23:24:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Deg7m-0001Lh-By for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 23:24:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DegDk-00079T-D9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 17:30:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.154.189.166 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1117920415 32013 127.0.0.1 (4 Jun 2005 21:26:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 21:26:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87r7fh7skr.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.154.189.166; posting-account=jQz-EQ0AAABiniXWq8YyRVQ60t_LIYwt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131755 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27218 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27218 > Ok, but emacs add-on don't need a different distribution: just put the > *.el in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-li sp/ or even in ~/emacs/ > You don't need an administrator to do it, a mere _emacs_ user can do that. the spell checker needs aspell/ispell/spell to be installed. last time i checked, Mr Gates wasn't distributing that with XP. also, AucTeX isn't as simple as putting some .el files into a folder... its a configure/make install procedure. that needs a POSIX shell. so... my request is really not as stupid as you make it out to be! (technical note... on WINDOWS, not UNIX-like systems, so no /usr/local. but i could instruct her to install .el files the drag and drop way if the adons really were just a single .el file.)