Re: "Easy" Windows Emacs

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Klaus Berndl wrote, concerning cygwin:
> It's not impossible for newbie to do these things

hmm, i don't think its an issue of "newbie"-ness... its more one of
"not wanting to do"-ness. my friend is very experienced with emacs,
windows and LaTeX and simply wants a bundled package which will get her
system working the way the SUNs do at her work desktop (set up by an
admin). there should be no need to manually install any other GNU
packages or frameworks such as cygwin.

such packages like this exist for OS X, and i am surprised that no such
package exists for GNU Emacs! possibly the oldest program i know of.

i'd thought maybe someone had compiled GNU Emacs CVS for windows and
ispell and added a bunch of useful packages (like AucTeX) and set them
up for a default Windows machine (i.e. all the AucTeX stuff pointing to
the usual location for a MiKTeX install etc)... then put the zip-file
(preferably a self extracting exe, but def NOT a tarball as most
windows machines do not handle them) on some webspace.