Re: [h-e-w] Emacs Installers. Was: Control frame size on startup from .emacs

[Jason Rumney]

David Vanderschel wrote:

> AFAIK, you can get emacs to work under Windows
> without modifying the registry; but I do think some
> environment variables need to be set.  (Someone please
> correct me if I am wrong on this.)
Since about 20.4, it is not necessary to set any environment variables. 
Emacs contains the logic
for working out sensible defaults based on the location of emacs.exe.

> HOME, EMACS_UNIBYTE, and MANPATH.
HOME will default to C:\ if not set. In future it will probably default 
to something like %USERPROFILE% if not set and C:\.emacs or C:\_emacs do 
not exist. MANPATH is useful if you have external man pages you want to 
read from Emacs. EMACS_UNIBYTE is deprecated, I'd suggest trying Emacs 
without it.

> Now if only someone could make a "live CD" for emacs
> that would run under Windows.
It should be as simple as copying your emacs directory to the CD. You 
could make it a little more fancy by including an autorun.inf that runs 
runemacs.exe.