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charset=UTF-8 Yeah Mr. Morris, you're onto something there. I'm a sophomore physics student just looking around the web for useful tools and Quora.com lead me to emacs. I honestly have no idea what it is though and my programming skills end at hello world. Us windows users are definitely used to just going url => downloads => windows => for latest version click here! Thank you all so much though for the quick responses! On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: > > FWIW I think the point here is that "here's the ftp server, you figure > out which file you need" is now archaic. The new thing is A Big > Button that you press that defaults to the "right" file for you, and a > small "other versions" link. See eg firefox.com. > > Also, one normally skips to the end to get the latest version, but on > ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows, "emacs-25.1-2" sorts before "emacs-25.1", > which doesn't help. > > Perhaps MS Windows users are additionally confused to not get an .exe > file that they Just Click to start installing. There's a 200 line README > file that explains what to do, but no-one reads the README. :) > --001a114e7e36de74b4054a45f77d Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Yeah Mr. Morris, you're onto something there. I'm = a sophomore physics student just looking around the web for useful tools an= d Quora.com lead me to emacs. I honestly have no idea what it is though and= my programming skills end at hello world. Us windows users are definitely = used to just going url =3D> downloads =3D> windows =3D> for latest= version click here! Thank you all so much though for the quick responses!<= /div>

On Thu, Mar = 9, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

FWIW I think the point here is that "here's the ftp server, you fi= gure
out which file you need" is now archaic. The new thing is A Big
Button that you press that defaults to the "right" file for you, = and a
small "other versions" link. See eg firefox.com.

Also, one normally skips to the end to get the latest version, but on
ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows, "emacs-25.1-2" sor= ts before "emacs-25.1",
which doesn't help.

Perhaps MS Windows users are additionally confused to not get an .exe
file that they Just Click to start installing. There's a 200 line READM= E
file that explains what to do, but no-one reads the README. :)

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