From: Jay Walker <jwalker@conserviscorp.com>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, "Nicolas Petton" <nicolas@petton.fr>
Cc: 24040@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24040: download instructions incomplete
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:57:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAByNYzFitEH63hcx0xL1Eh+70R-ezfUsHH=7g=1GmopPVSFcNQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87invzbxia.fsf@wanadoo.es>
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Nice, guys, I'm happy to see that the FAQ is being brought back! The way I
see it as a relatively new Emacs user is that more people would get into it
if the very beginning stages were explained very completely. Think about it
if you were a middle school student, what would you need to get started
with this wonderful and seemingly cryptic, dark world?
Jay
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:17 PM Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
> Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> writes:
>
> > Ok, so based on your feedback, it is not obvious that the zip file
> > contains a binary to run?
>
> Maybe it is a good idea to mention de addpm.exe utility for creating the
> shorcuts, and emacs.exe/emacsrun.exe for directly executing Emacs? Oh,
> wait:
>
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/efaq-w32.html#Installing-binaries
>
> but the FAQ is not referenced from
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html
>
> In fact, I found no link at all to the Windows FAQ. That's a waste,
> because the FAQ contains lots of useful info.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-21 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-20 15:56 bug#24040: download instructions incomplete Jay Walker
2016-07-20 20:42 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-20 20:57 ` Jay Walker
2016-07-20 22:18 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-21 1:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-21 12:57 ` Jay Walker [this message]
2016-07-21 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-24 15:53 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-25 13:15 ` Jay Walker
2016-07-26 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-26 16:40 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-24 15:30 ` Nicolas Petton
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