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Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts |
Date: |
Tue, 8 May 2012 07:26:27 -0700 |
> It would certainly be nice if Emacs came with a decent set of
> registry keys and start menu shortcuts so that it (client)
> would _just work_ without hand-editing registry or creating
> start menu shortcuts.
>
> If your code can be run after unpacking a standard nightly
> build on a fresh machine and it finishes setting up Emacs,
> I bet a lot of people would use it. For me at least, that
> integration was the biggest draw of W32Emacs over stock.
FWIW, that messing with the registry etc. is a main reason that I would *not*
use EmacsW32.
(Note: I am not saying that anyone else should not use it. I'm very glad that
Lennart has made EmacsW32 available.)
I have multiple versions of Emacs on my laptop. It is trivial to create a
shortcut to any of them that I want to start with just a click. And none of
them takes precedence over any others (registry settings etc.). I never touch
the registry for Emacs (what for?). And a shortcut need not be related to the
Start menu, BTW. You can put a shortcut anywhere.
What's the big deal about creating a shortcut? Why is that harder than running
some "installer"? I find unzipping and (optionally) creating a shortcut sans
effort and sans surprises - painless. So much so that I sometimes have more
than one shortcut to the same binary, with different startup switches etc.
YMMV - just one user experience.
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Matthew Fidler, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Gary Oberbrunner, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Lennart Borgman, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Drew Adams, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Matthew Fidler, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Lennart Borgman, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Drew Adams, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Gary Oberbrunner, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Drew Adams, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Gary Oberbrunner, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Drew Adams, 2012/05/08
- Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/08