Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread John Kitchin
The idea in scimax for windows is to include an Emacs git submodule. See https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/install-scimax-win.sh for how I suggest to install it. Assuming you have git installed, you can run: > bash -c "$(curl -fsSL

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread Axel Kielhorn
> Am 23.08.2016 um 20:06 schrieb John Kitchin : > > > Axel Kielhorn writes: > >>> Am 23.08.2016 um 00:13 schrieb John Kitchin : >>> >>> Checkout http://github.com/jkitchin/scimax. With git installed it will >>> install an opinionatedly

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread John Kitchin
Axel Kielhorn writes: >> Am 23.08.2016 um 00:13 schrieb John Kitchin : >> >> Checkout http://github.com/jkitchin/scimax. With git installed it will >> install an opinionatedly configured Emacs. Most of my students use it. I >> would just have each user install it. >

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread Axel Kielhorn
> Am 23.08.2016 um 00:13 schrieb John Kitchin : > > Checkout http://github.com/jkitchin/scimax. With git installed it will > install an opinionatedly configured Emacs. Most of my students use it. I > would just have each user install it. I’m using a modified jmax

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread John Kitchin
I find the git bash shell adequate for most of my needs. I haven't used cygwin in many years. Eric S Fraga writes: > On Tuesday, 23 Aug 2016 at 01:34, Grant Rettke wrote: >> I found Cygwin to make things more difficult for Emacs so I installed >> the plain old Windows Emacs and did the

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread Bill Burdick
I switched from Cygwin to Msys2 a year or two ago and it's been very good. The pacman-based package management is very good. The only thing to watch out for is that there are actually 2 gcc suites and if you want to build automake projects (like many open source projects), you'll want to be using

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 23 Aug 2016 at 09:21, Fabrice Popineau wrote: > I always found Cygwin to be a PIA when working under Windows. > I vastly prefer to use msys2+mingw64. Emacs 25 compiles out of the box > as a native w64 app and you get bash + all the tools you may want. > My $0.02 Thanks. I guess, if

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread Fabrice Popineau
2016-08-23 10:24 GMT+02:00 Eric S Fraga : > On Tuesday, 23 Aug 2016 at 01:34, Grant Rettke wrote: > > I found Cygwin to make things more difficult for Emacs so I installed > > the plain old Windows Emacs and did the following: > > > >

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 23 Aug 2016 at 01:34, Grant Rettke wrote: > I found Cygwin to make things more difficult for Emacs so I installed > the plain old Windows Emacs and did the following: > > https://github.com/grettke/help/blob/master/help.md#windows Thanks. I'll check this out. If I ever have to use a

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-23 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 22 Aug 2016 at 22:13, John Kitchin wrote: > Checkout http://github.com/jkitchin/scimax. With git installed it will > install an opinionatedly configured Emacs. Most of my students use > it. I would just have each user install it. Okay, thanks. I'll give your scimax a try. The main

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-22 Thread Grant Rettke
I found Cygwin to make things more difficult for Emacs so I installed the plain old Windows Emacs and did the following: https://github.com/grettke/help/blob/master/help.md#windows https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/5647/enabling-png-jpg-and-gif-in-emacs-on-windows I got Org from Git did

Re: [O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-22 Thread John Kitchin
Checkout http://github.com/jkitchin/scimax. With git installed it will install an opinionatedly configured Emacs. Most of my students use it. I would just have each user install it. On Monday, August 22, 2016, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Hello all, > > I am asking a n00b question

[O] Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

2016-08-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
Hello all, I am asking a n00b question here: what the is best way to get org (+ emacs obviously) on an MS Windows 7 pro system for use by more than one user on the system (multiple accounts with users not having Administrator accounts)? I don't need bleeding edge versions of either org or emacs