Re: [h-e-w] Please help with install problem : elisp stuff not found

[Jason Rumney]

Ronald Fischer wrote:
> This is certainly not the case: The zip file contains all files flat, no
> directories.
>   

What software did you use to unpack the zip file? The zip file on the 
official FTP site does indeed contain subdirectories, but in some 
unpacking software you may need to explicitly tell it to build the 
directory tree.

> Next I observed that emacs looks for the el files in a certain search
> path, which
> does not exist on my system (i.e. C:\emacs etc.), so my guess is that
> one has to
> set some environment variable to denote the emacs base directory.
>   

I think this is a fallback for when the directory ..\lisp (relative to 
emacs.exe) does not exist.
If you have installed a very old version of Emacs before (19.x, and 
maybe 20.1/20.2), you may need to run addpm.exe to update old hardcoded 
paths in the registry, but as a fresh install running addpm.exe is optional.