From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Easy" Windows Emacs Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 07:26:04 +0200 Organization: [posted via Easynet Spain] Message-ID: <87mzq574sz.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <1117898093.081644.298490@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87br6m86c6.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <1117903695.355175.316140@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87r7fh7skr.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <1117920410.651627.276900@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117949327 1580 80.91.229.2 (5 Jun 2005 05:28:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 05:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 05 07:28:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DengM-0006P1-96 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2005 07:28:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Denlu-0003PO-Qi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2005 01:34:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feeder2.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!easynet-monga!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:N1MuL3taRtTKfbbKzxEAJVgjDO8= Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=<8MKFMDU?[EX^DgiiRP4\NEY<>`XO4V7M>Uh 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:27226 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27226 "Shug Boabby" writes: >> 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.) Of course, the first thing I do when I have to use MS-Windows, is to install cygwin. That's why I did not see the problem. Go fetch it: http://www.cygwin.com/ And of course, ispell is included in cygwin, and AucTeX is included in the xemacs-sumo package. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ Until real software engineering is developed, the next best practice is to develop with a dynamic system that has extreme late binding in all aspects. The first system to really do this in an important way is Lisp. -- Alan Kay