From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tami Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Runemacs.exe and emacs.exe don't seem to run Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:13:06 -0600 Message-ID: <20285.39826.996746.959465@rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org> References: <001601cce860$9b215860$d1640920$@net> Reply-To: tami@gnurse.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329447726 25445 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2012 03:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:02:06 +0000 (UTC) To: dougharter@comcast.net, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 17 04:02:04 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RyE5D-0006Md-Qm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:02:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyE5D-0001r3-Dy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyE57-0001l6-Om for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:01:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyE56-0003mB-U2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:01:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.149.184.62] (port=24489 helo=eric.tensleep.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyE56-0003lq-Gx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org (pppclient.eric.tensleep.com [172.22.1.2]) by eric.tensleep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B938937E52; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:01:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org (Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386), from userid 9049) id 237352FC95; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:13:07 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: Douglas Harter's message of Friday, 10 February 2012 20:58:10 -0500 <001601cce860$9b215860$d1640920$@net> X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under Emacs 21.1.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 64.149.184.62 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83775 Archived-At: On 2012 February 10 Douglas Harter wrote: > I am running EMacs 21.3 on Windows XP & Vista and have been for quite a > while. The reason I have not changed is that starting with 21.4, when I run > runemacs.exe or emacs.exe, I never get the work area to come up. > When I upgraded using the bare-bin with 21.4, the problem started occurring. > I have tried upgrading several times since, the last time to 23.3, and still > have the same problem. > Can anyone tell me what I need to do? Do you NEED to upgrade? Is there necessary added functionality that is missing in your current working version? Can you get around the upgrade problem by just adding .el files? .Tami .signature: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected