Re: [O] ot: windows xemacs question

[Bernt Hansen]

TonyMc <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:53:07 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>
>>I had a read of the setup instructions for emacs on windows and 
>>unfortunately so many of them involve modifying the windows registry.  A 
>>very experienced software specialist told me it's best never to use 
>>software that requires these modifications because sooner rather than 
>>later windows will crash and then the whole mess has to be reinstalled 
>>after that.  He had no idea about xemacs but he told me emacs and windows 
>>do not live happily on machines together.  So I'm wondering if xemacs 
>>might end up being any better and figured this being the closest list to 
>>emacs support I'm on that actually works to ask this question here.
>
> Not sure where you got your info, but it is misleading and should not
> put you off.  "Installing" GNU Emacs on Windows involves unzipping a
> directory tree, that is all.  Download emacs-23.4-bin-i386.zip and
> unzip it to e.g. the root of the C: drive.  Then you can run emacs as
> C:\emacs-23.4\bin\runemacs.exe.

I agree that no registry changes should be/are required.  I use windows
at work with an unzipped emacs and I've never touched the registry.

Regards,
Bernt