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: "Easy" Windows Emacs Date: 5 Jun 2005 19:36:28 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1118025388.790785.155200@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.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> <87mzq574sz.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118025253 11329 80.91.229.2 (6 Jun 2005 02:34:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 02:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 06 04:34:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Df7RB-0002u0-JN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:34:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Df7XP-0007tc-4E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2005 22:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.154.189.166 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1118025394 3761 127.0.0.1 (6 Jun 2005 02:36:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 02:36:34 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.154.189.166; posting-account=jQz-EQ0AAABiniXWq8YyRVQ60t_LIYwt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131789 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:27254 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27254 Klaus Berndl wrote, concerning cygwin: > It's not impossible for newbie to do these things hmm, i don't think its an issue of "newbie"-ness... its more one of "not wanting to do"-ness. my friend is very experienced with emacs, windows and LaTeX and simply wants a bundled package which will get her system working the way the SUNs do at her work desktop (set up by an admin). there should be no need to manually install any other GNU packages or frameworks such as cygwin. such packages like this exist for OS X, and i am surprised that no such package exists for GNU Emacs! possibly the oldest program i know of. i'd thought maybe someone had compiled GNU Emacs CVS for windows and ispell and added a bunch of useful packages (like AucTeX) and set them up for a default Windows machine (i.e. all the AucTeX stuff pointing to the usual location for a MiKTeX install etc)... then put the zip-file (preferably a self extracting exe, but def NOT a tarball as most windows machines do not handle them) on some webspace.