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From: | Lennart Borgman |
Subject: | Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows |
Date: | Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:12:07 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) |
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
I tried to write the installer in such a way that you do not need admin priv.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.
That makes me remember someone wanted a list of all changes to the registry. I forgot to make such a list (which will be very short).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.
You need to start gnuserv too yourself I guess when you do it this way. For me as a typical command line user it is also important to make it possible to start editing a new file from the command line so I add that also in the installer. (And I add a shortcut to the SendTo folder too;-)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!
Why do you add Emacs to your path? Is that needed outside of Emacs?
Yes, it surely does. When I wrote EmacsW32 I tried to target both new and old users, but that is not very easy ;-)Hope this makes sense. :)
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