Try evaling this, it's what caused my problems on 21.3a:
(eval-after-load "dired"
'(define-key dired-mode-map [f3] (lambda ()
(interactive)
(w32-browser
(dired-replace-in-string
"/" "\\"
(dired-get-filename))))))
"Latchezar Dimitrov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure what you were talking about. I unpacked (installed?) 21.3a
> into a new dir and run it w/o any problems.
>
> Latchezar
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Suraj Acharya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:41 PM
>> To: Jason Rumney
>> Cc: Mats Sundqvist; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: fatal error
>>
>>
>> Jason Rumney wrote:
>>
>> > Mats Sundqvist wrote:
>> >
>> >> I get the following "emacs abort dialog" when I try to run
>> Emacs with
>> >> jde:
>> >
>> > > " a fatal error has occurred select abort to ..."
>> >
>> >> emacs-21.3 (the emacs for windows)
>> >
>> >
>> > If this was downloaded from ftp.gnu.org, then it is broken.
>> Go back to
>> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows, and download
>> > emacs-21.3a-barebin.tar.gz. Unpack that over the top of
>> your existing
>> > installation and you should be OK. Make sure you get 21.3a, not the
>> > broken 21.3 that is still there because it needs one of the GNU
>> > sysadmins to delete it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> For those of you who want to play with these new emacs
>> binaries here's
>> what I found:
>>
>> Trying to do a clean install with emacs-21.3a-fullbin.tar.gz
>> does not
>> work (for me at least) - I get a
>> message about a missing emacs/bin/fns-21.3.1.el file. However if you
>> follow Jason's instructions exactly,
>> and rid of the 21.3a directory, then unpack emacs-21.3-fullbin.tar.gz
>> and then emacs-21.3a-barebin.tar.gz
>> on top of that *then* emacs starts up without any problems.
>>
>> Suraj
>>
>>
