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: Trying to learn programing Date: 28 Nov 2005 16:32:44 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1133224364.284242.320590@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133225009 28789 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2005 00:43:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 29 01:43:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgtZg-0008S6-Gy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:42:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgtZe-0001XW-CQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:42:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.41.24.222 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1133224369 25538 127.0.0.1 (29 Nov 2005 00:32:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:32:49 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/416.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/416.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.41.24.222; posting-account=jQz-EQ0AAABiniXWq8YyRVQ60t_LIYwt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135876 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:31481 Archived-At: Hi Cameron. first of all, Emacs is an editor but not a compiler for languages like C. the program you installed before probably has a compiler built it (as it was able to compile your hello world program). But fear not, Emacs is part of a much larger project called the GNU project: http://www.gnu.org/ and it does indeed have a free C++ compiler: http://gcc.gnu.org/ I do not have Windows so I cannot tell exactly what your problem is, though I suspect you have maybe downloaded the source code for Emacs, not the binary itself (but do not delete it... it may be useful material for you to read and help your programming! although very advanced for a beginner, you might want to come back to it in a few months.) I suggest you read this for instructions on how to install Emacs for Windows: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html and this for how to install a very minimal version of GCC for Windows http://www.mingw.org/docs.shtml#installation I'm sorry there is not a single, easy download for this (that I know of), it would be really handy if someone made such a "beginning coder" download of Emacs for Windows users, with nice defaults. I'd suggest you try the Emacs tutorial out as soon as you install Emacs, to get a feel for how it works.