- Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/98/2000/XP
+ Emacs for Windows
- Version 21.1
-
- November 18, 2001
-
This README file describes how to set up and run a precompiled version
- of GNU Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/98/2000/XP. This
+ of GNU Emacs for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me. This
distribution can be found on the ftp.gnu.org server and its mirrors:
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/latest/
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
This server contains other distributions, including the full Emacs
source distribution and the lisp source distribution, as well as older
Answers to frequently asked questions, and further information about
this port of GNU Emacs and related software packages can be found via
- http or ftp:
+ http:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/docs/ntemacs.html
* Preliminaries
related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about the
list, see this Web page:
- http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows
+ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows
To ask questions on the mailing list, send email to
help-emacs-windows@gnu.org. (You don't need to subscribe for that.)
To subscribe to the list or unsubscribe from it, fill the form you
- find at http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows as
+ find at http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows as
explained there.
Another valuable source of information and help which should not be
invoking Emacs with the "-q --no-site-file" options.
If you decide that it is a bug in Emacs that might be specific to the
- Windows port, send a message to the ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu
+ Windows port, send a message to the "help-emacs-windows@gnu.org"
mailing list describing the bug, the version of Emacs that you are
using, and the operating system that you are running on (Windows NT,
- 2000, 95 or 98 including service pack level if known). If the bug is
- related to subprocesses, also specify which shell you are using (e.g.,
- include the values of `shell-file-name' and `shell-explicit-file-name'
- in your message).
+ 2000, 95, 98, etc. including service pack level if known). If the bug
+ is related to subprocesses, also specify which shell you are using
+ (e.g., include the values of `shell-file-name' and
+ `shell-explicit-file-name' in your message).
If you think the bug is not specific to the Windows port of Emacs,
- then it is better to mail the bug report to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so
+ then it is better to mail the bug report to "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" so
that it will be seen by the right people. If Emacs has been set up to
send mail, you can use the command M-x report-emacs-bug to create and
send the bug report, but in some cases there is a function to report
bugs in a specific package; e.g. M-x gnus-bug for Gnus, M-x
c-submit-bug-report for C/C++/Java mode, etc.
- Enjoy.
-
- Andrew Innes
- (andrewi@gnu.org)
+ Enjoy!