Re: tramp, emacs, xp, putty

["MitchellCowen" <mitchell.verter@gmail.com>]

Where do you get the binary?

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "MitchellCowen" <mitchell.verter@gmail.com>
> > Date: 5 Jan 2007 08:50:03 -0800
> >
> > I've been browsing through the list archives but I still don't
> > understand how to install tramp to work with normal emacs [not xemacs
> > or emacsW32] on XP.  Someone says that emacs22 already has tramp but I
> > don't see the binary at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ .
>
> Emacs 22 was not yet released, but you can find the binary on the same
> site as emacsW32: there's an unpatched binary there.
>
> > 1.  Downloaded cygwin
> > 2.  Downloaded tramp
> > 3.  Unpacked tramp to C:\Program Files\emacs\emacs-21.3\tramp-2.1.7
> > 4.  change directory to the tramp-2.1.7 directory
> > 5.  ./configure --with-contrib --with-lispdir='C:/Program
> > Files/Emacs/site-lisp'  --infodir='C:/Program Files/Emacs/info'
> >
> > I get the response
> > : command not found4:
> > ./configure: line 24: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
> > ./configure: line 24 'case set -o 2> /dev/null' in *posix *>set -o
> > posix;;' sac
> >
> > I am assuming this is some problem with cygwin.  Any ideas how to do
> > this correctly?
>
> I suggest to get a native Windows binary of Emacs 22, it all works
> there out of the box, no customizations in .emacs are necessary.