Dear developers,
First of all, thank you very much for all the work you have done. I am very grateful for the free software, packages.and instructions. I see that you put much effort to make it accessible for everyone.
I am a biostatistician. I have been programming in R, and writing Latex for 5 years. Recently I started to use Emacs (with ESS & Auctex) on my Mac and I loved it. However when I try to install it on my Windows 7 all kinds of trouble occurred.
I have been reading the installation procedure of Auctex for Emacs.
As a windows user who knows less than 5 commands in Linux, I have to say that I find the page very intimidating. For example, I don't understand
"you can do this by typing the following statement at the shell prompt:
| | ./configure --prefix='C:/Program Files/Emacs' \
--infodir='C:/Program Files/Emacs/info' \
--with-texmf-dir='C:/localtexmf' " or " If there were no further error messages, type |
I am not sure what a "shell prompt" is or where to "type" the word "make". I am more used to giving orders by clicking mouse buttons. I admit I should probably learn more background in order to understand the page, but is there anyway that I can configure it without learning another operating system? I just want to get it to work during the weekend.
Thank you very much for your time!
Best regards,
James
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