Re: FW: Need help upgrading from emacs 21.3 to 22.1

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> On 10 Mar, 19:29, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
> <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Emacs+EmacsW32 distributions might help you. They come as an
>> installation executable.
> 
> Are these based on the released version of Emacs 22.1? Last time I
> checked, they were still based on older development code.

Still an old version, but it was made just a little bit more than a week 
before the release of 22.1, so the differences are small.

> You can download Emacs 22.1 from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows
> The other instructions should be as valid as they were previously, but
> really all you need to do is uncompress the file to a directory and
> run it (emacs.exe, or runemacs.exe to hide the command window). If you
> want an Emacs icon in the start menu, then run addpm.exe.

I think there were something about environmental variable too. Didn't 
the default change in Emacs 22? I think there is no need to set that in 
Emacs 22.

> I'd recommend against copying someone else's .emacs file, as the
> webpage you linked to does. For one thing, most of what is in that
> file is cruft, enabling things that are already enabled in 22.1 (or
> even 21.3 in many cases). For another, the changes it makes to the
> defaults are the personal preferences of the author of that .emacs,
> and may not coincide with your own preferences.
>