Re: [O] ot: windows xemacs question

[TonyMc]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:53:07 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>I had a read of the setup instructions for emacs on windows and 
>unfortunately so many of them involve modifying the windows registry.  A 
>very experienced software specialist told me it's best never to use 
>software that requires these modifications because sooner rather than 
>later windows will crash and then the whole mess has to be reinstalled 
>after that.  He had no idea about xemacs but he told me emacs and windows 
>do not live happily on machines together.  So I'm wondering if xemacs 
>might end up being any better and figured this being the closest list to 
>emacs support I'm on that actually works to ask this question here.

Not sure where you got your info, but it is misleading and should not
put you off.  "Installing" GNU Emacs on Windows involves unzipping a
directory tree, that is all.  Download emacs-23.4-bin-i386.zip and
unzip it to e.g. the root of the C: drive.  Then you can run emacs as
C:\emacs-23.4\bin\runemacs.exe.

Tony