Emacs on a flash drive

Emacs on a flash drive

[deech]

Is there a way to have an entire emacs install sitting on a flash
drive and be able to run it on Linux, Windows and Mac?

I have seen web-sites that show the procedure for Windows but not
Linux or Mac.

Thanks,
Deech

Re: Emacs on a flash drive

[David Hansen]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:56:20 -0700 (PDT) deech wrote:

> Is there a way to have an entire emacs install sitting on a flash
> drive and be able to run it on Linux, Windows and Mac?
>
> I have seen web-sites that show the procedure for Windows but not
> Linux or Mac.

What does not work with ./configure --prefix=/path/to/flash/ ?

I suspect no one ever wrote something about this procedure because there
is nothing to write about.

David

Re: Emacs on a flash drive

[nakkaya]

for mac compile it as a stand alone application. then move it anywhere
you want. refer to install docs.

-- 
Nurullah Akkaya

Re: Emacs on a flash drive

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

Interesting have in bin dir with platform depend excutable and have 
lisp, site-lisp dir same for they.

None of previous answer explain that.

emacs-22.2-barebin-i386 has about 16 MiB. So for all in use desktop you 
must have 3*16 MiB (MAC, Windows, Linux). And 110 MiB for share elisp.

Re: Emacs on a flash drive

[Chris Patterson]

Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com> writes:

> Interesting have in bin dir with platform depend excutable and have
> lisp, site-lisp dir same for they.
>
> None of previous answer explain that.
>
> emacs-22.2-barebin-i386 has about 16 MiB. So for all in use desktop
> you must have 3*16 MiB (MAC, Windows, Linux). And 110 MiB for share
> elisp.

I've had good luck with this using the self-contained Emacs.app (Carbon)
for Mac OS and W32 Emacs along with a Cygwin install.