From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24040: download instructions incomplete Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:53:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87a8h7yqv3.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87inw09h3e.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469375665 16378 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2016 15:54:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 15:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nicolas Petton , 24040@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jay Walker Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 24 17:54:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bRLjJ-000562-51 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Original-Received: from [151.65.229.249] (port=53931 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.86_1) (envelope-from ) id 1bRLiu-002a1c-8M; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:53:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Jay Walker's message of "Wed, 20 Jul 2016 20:57:21 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - debbugs.gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:121488 Archived-At: I entirely agree with this. Combined with the single multiple-top-level zip file, the windows download is not obvious. And using Emacs without having msys installed is a limited experience because it misses lots of DLLs that it needs. The README with the pre-test binaries really sucks als (my fault). This situation could be improved significantly. Phil Jay Walker writes: > Yes, thank you so much for your help! Ok, so I am assuming to be complete= ly > new at Emacs. Based on the Windows Download instructions, but also OSX, I > can=C2=B4t really tell what to do. Following what the website says, it ap= pears I > can either download a zip file from a mirror, or get MSYS2 in order to > download it that way. It seemed that MSYS2 was a better approach because > downloading it gives me a bunch of files I have no idea what to do with. = So > once I have gotten MSYS2 (a link would be helpful!), I enter the command > and see that it has downloaded. But what's next? Perhaps it would be usef= ul > to have a link to the next steps to getting emacs running. I type in > =C2=B4emacs=C2=B4 and it is unrecognized. Do you feel me on what I am get= ting at? > Thanks for your patience and attentiveness! > Jay > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:42 PM Nicolas Petton wrote: > >> Jay Walker writes: >> >> Hi Jay, >> >> > I followed your download instructions and found they are so lacking, >> please >> > update! >> >> Which download instructions are you talking about? Was it the >> instructions for Windows installation found on the Emacs website? >> >> Nico >>