From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Saurabh Agrawal Subject: Re: Installing on windows Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:37:02 +0530 Message-ID: <4c4575360902041007x62c40765h165eef5cd8c1b1@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUm9T-0002Uk-Ql for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:07:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUm9R-0002UW-DY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:07:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53089 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUm9R-0002UT-7M for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:07:05 -0500 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.190]:28959) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUm9Q-0005aI-Kw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:07:04 -0500 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w8so524286mue.6 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:07:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Manish Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Presently I have org-mode 6.16 installed, which came default with latest release of emacs win32. However, I just downloaded version 6.21b and tried to do as you said. However, "org-version" is still showing 6.16. Will we have to unlink earlier version somehow? Regards, Saurabh. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Manish wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Bill Raynor wrote: >> I and many others would be grateful for a detailed step-by-step >> tutorial on installing org-mode on windows. The basic instructions >> work just fine on, say, OS X (edit makefile, make and make install) >> but don't work on windows. Using emacs on windows is quite simple >> (download and install) but updating Org doesn't work so well. > > Just unzip the org-mode in some location (e.g. D:/mystuff/org-mode/) and > add following to .emacs (customize to taste/need).. mostly copied from > Org manual activation section: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (add-to-list 'load-path "D:/mystuff/org-mode/lisp") > (require 'org-install) > ;; The following lines are always needed. Choose your own keys. > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode)) > (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link) > (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda) > (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb) > (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) ; Org buffers only > (transient-mark-mode 1) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > >> >> In the past I've used dired to attempt to compile the directory >> directly, which gets lots of error messages, but sort of works. I read >> a recent post on installing cygwin, but that doesn't quite work, as >> the post neglected to mention that you have to install cygwin + some >> unspecified packages (to get make, for instance). I trying that now. I >> am also using the W32 version of emacs. > > You do not /have to/ compile the lisp files, you can use just the source > (by skipping all steps that ask for make in the installation section of > the manual.) I am not sure how much performance impact will it have but > it's an option at least. > > Do let us know how it goes. > > HTH > -- > Manish > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >