Re: OK -- I accept your advice to PC-install the "native" emacs. Please, EXACT instructions

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

David Combs wrote:
> OK, I want to truy the native emacs (on the PC)  (I have cygwin there already).
> 
> Since it isn't my own computer, but my wife's, which she depends
> on absolutely for her work (web-site design), I want to get
> instructions from the horse's mouth(s).
> 
> Also, note that it'll be she who does the physical install.
> 
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> 1: I already have cygwin installed --
> 
>    AND ALSO ITS OWN EMACS.   (which I've been playing with --
>    am tired of that narrow black-window -- am used on my computer
>    with full-screen emacs, of course).
> 
> 2: So, must the CURRENT emacs be removed, or can it just stay there?

No, it can stay but you may have to adjust your path enviroment variable 
depending on how you invoke emacs. I have two shortcuts on desktop to 
native binaries, one emacsq with target:

C:\Emacs\bin\runemacs.exe -Q

and another emacs with target:

C:\Emacs\bin\runemacs.exe


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> 3: if it has to be removed, how to do it?
> 
>    (note, it was installed along with the cygwin stufff,
>     by simply answering yes to its emacs-instal question).
> 
> 
> 4: EXACT URL where the native-emacs is.  No, I don't want
>    to rely on google -- you guys know EXACTLY which I should use!


http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-22.3-bin-i386.zip

or possibly more stable:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-22.2-bin-i386.zip

Unzip with absolute paths option.

> 
>    (no chance for screwup!)  :-)

Your mileage may vary.

> 
> 5: anything else?

Yes. ;-)
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> THANKS!
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> 
> David
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