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Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available |
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Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:00:28 +0200 |
> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:06 -0400
>
> > The above is actually common knowledge for Windows users,
>
> No, it's only common knowledge among Windows developers. My mother is a
> typical Windows user; she has _no_ idea what a dll is, nor what to do
> with it.
>
> But we are discussing users of Emacs on Windows, which is a tiny subset
> of Windows users. I don't know what a typical Emacs user (Windows or
> otherwise) knows about shared libraries in general, but there's no harm
> in assuming they know nothing.
>
> In installation instructions, it is certainly appropriate to state
> something like:
>
> unzip the archive, place the resulting .../bin in PATH
Thanks. I took the advice and updated the README there with some
simple installation instructions.
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available, (continued)
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available, Christoph, 2013/03/17
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available, Uwe Siart, 2013/03/18
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/03/18
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available, Christoph, 2013/03/18
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/03/19
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available, chad, 2013/03/19
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/03/20
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available, Stephen Leake, 2013/03/20
- Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available,
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