Having been recently moved to Windows-7 and wanting things to work better for me, I learned some cool thinks like the command mklink to make a link. Since I decided also to try the leading edge of the wave of Emacs candidate releases, I made use of mklink to allow easy changes in my emacs installation. Each install goes into a separate directory, but I created a link "C:\Program Files\Emacs that points to the directory I wish to use for my current installation. You need the /d option to create a link to point to a directory. Then all file associations, scripts, etc. no longer need to change. They all reference through the link.
Kevin Buchs | Senior Engineer | SPPDG | 507-538-5459 | buchs.ke...@mayo.edu Mayo Clinic | 200 First Street SW | Rochester, MN 55905 | http://www.mayo.edu/sppdg -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 12:34:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Oberbrunner <ga...@genarts.com> To: Drew Adams <drew.ad...@oracle.com> Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com>, Matthew Fidler <matthew.fid...@gmail.com>, Adam Golding <adamdold...@adamgolding.com> Note that if you like to associate file types with emacs, like .txt and so on, each of those is a separate registry command, so if you move your emacs, you have to adjust all of them. Or write a bat script and use that. At least I think this is true. I always keep my emacs in the same place: c:\Program Files (x86)\Emacs\Emacs. Old versions go in C:\Program Files (x86)\Emacs\Emacs-24.0.91 and so on. That way they all automatically read my site-lisp which I keep in c:\Program Files (x86)\Emacs\site-lisp.
