installation of emacs on Windows

installation of emacs on Windows

[thickface]

hi all,
i just downloaded two files, emacs-21.4a.tar and emacs-21.4a.tar.gz.
now i am trying to figure out how to install them.  right now, i have
no idea.  i even don't know what 'tar' and gz mean.
can anyone help me out??  thanks.

Re: installation of emacs on Windows

[Lennart Borgman]

thickface wrote:
> hi all,
> i just downloaded two files, emacs-21.4a.tar and emacs-21.4a.tar.gz.
> now i am trying to figure out how to install them.  right now, i have
> no idea.  i even don't know what 'tar' and gz mean.
> can anyone help me out??  thanks.
>   
Go to http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryWThirtyTwo

Re: installation of emacs on Windows

[Tim Johnson]

* thickface <kimfinale@gmail.com> [060114 14:34]:
> hi all,
> i just downloaded two files, emacs-21.4a.tar and emacs-21.4a.tar.gz.
> now i am trying to figure out how to install them.  right now, i have
> no idea.  i even don't know what 'tar' and gz mean.

 Hi thickface:
   Most windows utilies like pkzip, winzip will open a tarfile
   (.tar.gz extension)
   tim

> can anyone help me out??  thanks.
> 
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Re: installation of emacs on Windows

[B. T. Raven]

"thickface" <kimfinale@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1137281196.256453.102730@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> hi all,
> i just downloaded two files, emacs-21.4a.tar and emacs-21.4a.tar.gz.
> now i am trying to figure out how to install them.  right now, i have
> no idea.  i even don't know what 'tar' and gz mean.
> can anyone help me out??  thanks.
>

You might have a source tarball for Linux and a gzipped tarball. If you
want to run a pre-compiled package under windows I would suggest that you
fall back to 21.3. I think that newer versions than that for Doze are all
CVS (  beta versions).

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz

and if you want foreign language support:

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-21.3-leim.tar.gz

The djtarnt.exe (downloadable at):

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/utilities/i386/

works more reliably than Winzip. Go to a Dos window so you can see what's
going on (start:run:command). Copy the djtarnt.exe and the the tar.gz file
(or both tar.gz's) from wherever you downloaded them to, into any empty
directory (e.g. \emacs) and run djtarnt -x emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz
and  then the other one. Finally type runemacs (or make a shortcut on the
desktop with a start directory specified where you want to keep your edit
files. You can also run addpm if you want emacs specific info written into
Windows' registry. It's not necessary.

Ed.

Re: installation of emacs on Windows

[Xiaodong Xu]

"thickface" <kimfinale@gmail.com> writes:

> hi all,
> i just downloaded two files, emacs-21.4a.tar and emacs-21.4a.tar.gz.
> now i am trying to figure out how to install them.  right now, i have
> no idea.  i even don't know what 'tar' and gz mean.
> can anyone help me out??  thanks.

give u some tips:

1. try to learn some base knowledge of emacs and linux
2. try to download emacs22 (or so called nqmacs) instead of emacs21