Lennart Borgman wrote: > Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > >> Indeed I prefer not using *installers*. Nevertheless where can I >> download that EmacsW32 distro? >> >> Cordially, Ismael >> >> > It is here: http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html > > And since you said you do not like installers could you perhaps give me > some feedback?;-)
Not much feedback to give. Windows is a dangerous place to live in and in order to avoid viruses and spyware I usually prefer being a non administrative user. As a non administrative user, when emacs comes in form of a zipped or tarred archive I can simply uncompress it and add the resulting bin to my personal path. If I needed to run an installer, before I would need to contact my IT department in order to become an administrator. Moreover I am simply used to UNIX way of life where all the configuration goes to plain text files under /etc or under your home in form of dotfiles. Usually I am not aware of how much garbage an installer puts in my registry, so better simply uncompress things and run them being in full control of their configuration. My way: Getting a compiled emacs archive, uncompressing it to C:\emacs, adding C:\emacs\bin to my path, setting HOME to C:\cygwin\home\ismaeval2 and putting there my .emacs, adding a shortcut to gnuclienw.exe to my SendTo folder, and that's it! Hope this makes sense. :) Cordially, Ismael -- Dropping science like when Galileo dropped his orange
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