Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> paul r wrote:
> > I think emacs customization process is already fairly good. But many
> > beginners will simply give up *before* even discovering M-x customize
> > ... sad, but true at least for people I know.
>
> It you are on w32 chances are you may give up quite a lot of times since 
> it is IMO more complicated to get a useful Emacs there. That is one 
> reason I wrote the installation package for EmacsW32. I still think 
> Emacs on w32 should be distributed as an installation package for those 
> who wants a precompiled Emacs with the needed extra binaries (grep etc).

Here is a fresh, just some minutes old, example of the difficulties from 
the emacs on windows list. I have seen many like this.

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"I am trying to print from Emacs on windows XP. I am using Emacs 22.1.1. 
I am trying to use postscript print through ghostscript. The ghostscript 
version is 8.61.  My .emacs is:

;; Setup Ghostscript 8.61 as the postscript printer

(setenv "GS_LIB" "e:\\Tools\\gs\\gs8.61;e:\\Tools\\gs\\fonts")

(setq ps-lpr-command "e:/Tools/gs/gs8.61/bin/gswin32c")

(setq ps-lpr-switches '("-q" "-dNOPAUSE" "-dBATCH" "-sDEVICE=mswinpr2"))

(setq ps-printer-name t)



When I attempt to print there is no error message and no print – 
nothing. Ghostscript does seem to work – at least through ghostview. It 
is probably a simple erro, but I don’t see it.

thanx"

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