From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manish Subject: Re: Installing on windows Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:18:15 +0530 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUlrH-0005JW-6D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:48:19 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUlrG-0005J0-D4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:48:18 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53035 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUlrG-0005Is-5C for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:48:18 -0500 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.191]:12848) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUlrF-0003Q1-DY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:48:17 -0500 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j3so74926tid.10 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:48:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bill Raynor Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Bill Raynor wrote: > I and many others would be grateful for a detailed step-by-step > tutorial on installing org-mode on windows. The basic instructions > work just fine on, say, OS X (edit makefile, make and make install) > but don't work on windows. Using emacs on windows is quite simple > (download and install) but updating Org doesn't work so well. Just unzip the org-mode in some location (e.g. D:/mystuff/org-mode/) and add following to .emacs (customize to taste/need).. mostly copied from Org manual activation section: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (add-to-list 'load-path "D:/mystuff/org-mode/lisp") (require 'org-install) ;; The following lines are always needed. Choose your own keys. (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode)) (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link) (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda) (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb) (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) ; Org buffers only (transient-mark-mode 1) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > In the past I've used dired to attempt to compile the directory > directly, which gets lots of error messages, but sort of works. I read > a recent post on installing cygwin, but that doesn't quite work, as > the post neglected to mention that you have to install cygwin + some > unspecified packages (to get make, for instance). I trying that now. I > am also using the W32 version of emacs. You do not /have to/ compile the lisp files, you can use just the source (by skipping all steps that ask for make in the installation section of the manual.) I am not sure how much performance impact will it have but it's an option at least. Do let us know how it goes. HTH -- Manish