Re: [AUCTeX-devel] question regarding installation under Windows

[michael malone]

Dear David, Mose



Apologies for not getting back to you regards confirming whether your 
instruction to install AUCTeX using the Emacs package manager was successful.



Well I am happy to say that it was successful and everything is working 
perfectly.  Thank you very much for your help and also for the work you do 
maintaining AUCTeX.



Referring specifically to the installation instructions,  indeed it does say to 
install AUCTeX using the Emacs package manager in the docs but unfortunately I 
found the legacy installation instructions first that were linked in my first 
email.



Perhaps as part of the old installation instructions you could include a 
disclaimer that the instructions are out of date and perhaps a link to the 
relevant current instructions.



This may be helpful for other emacs amateurs like myself 





Thanks again for the info!

Best,

Michael



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From: Mosè Giordano 
Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 8:04:30 PM
To: David Kastrup
Cc: sad_butt_t...@hotmail.com; auctex-devel
Subject: Re: [AUCTeX-devel] question regarding installation under Windows

Hi David and Michael,

Il giorno lun 3 set 2018 alle ore 10:37 David Kastrup  ha scritto:
>
> michael malone  writes:
>
> > I am not a programmer but I require the use of Emacs/auctex in Windows
> > so I can work in latex using voice recognition.
> >
> > Because I’m not a programmer the issues or questions I may have may be
> > very basic so apologies.
> >
> > I am following the detailed instructions for installing auctex found
> > here
> > https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fsoftware%2Fauctex%2Fmanual%2Fauctex%2FInstallation-under-MS-Windows.htmldata=02%7C01%7C%7C76c1b3c3b9404d16082f08d611d02d87%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636715983139430158sdata=k3N2r%2BIJZ%2Bxyk9lyx8JMCl2U%2BexlzAq4w6GXeoGyiyQ%3Dreserved=0
>
> We probably should overhaul our installation instructions.

Actually this is already explained in the installation instructions:
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fsoftware%2Fauctex%2Fmanual%2Fauctex.html%23Installationdata=02%7C01%7C%7C76c1b3c3b9404d16082f08d611d02d87%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636715983139430158sdata=5g5pKU2zAgeDOlZwaXoO5FuOZt0D0roz02GfE3XI5os%3Dreserved=0
Other installation procedures are left there for reference (maybe it's
a bad idea?), but there is almost never a good reason to use anything
else besides ELPA to install AUCTeX.

Bye,
Mosè
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] question regarding installation under Windows

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi David and Michael,

Il giorno lun 3 set 2018 alle ore 10:37 David Kastrup  ha scritto:
>
> michael malone  writes:
>
> > I am not a programmer but I require the use of Emacs/auctex in Windows
> > so I can work in latex using voice recognition.
> >
> > Because I’m not a programmer the issues or questions I may have may be
> > very basic so apologies.
> >
> > I am following the detailed instructions for installing auctex found
> > here
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Installation-under-MS-Windows.html
>
> We probably should overhaul our installation instructions.

Actually this is already explained in the installation instructions:
https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex.html#Installation
Other installation procedures are left there for reference (maybe it's
a bad idea?), but there is almost never a good reason to use anything
else besides ELPA to install AUCTeX.

Bye,
Mosè

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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] question regarding installation under Windows

[David Kastrup]

michael malone  writes:

> I am not a programmer but I require the use of Emacs/auctex in Windows
> so I can work in latex using voice recognition.
>
> Because I’m not a programmer the issues or questions I may have may be
> very basic so apologies.
>
> I am following the detailed instructions for installing auctex found
> here
> https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Installation-under-MS-Windows.html

We probably should overhaul our installation instructions.  Emacs comes
with a package manager these days, and AUCTeX is available from there.
So if you get an Emacs installed and do

M-x package-list-packages RET

you should be able to find AUCTeX in that list and install it (using "i"
I think).

I don't think you should be experiencing problems under Windows; be sure
to report back either way.

-- 
David Kastrup

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[AUCTeX-devel] question regarding installation under Windows

[michael malone]

Hi,

I am not a programmer but I require the use of Emacs/auctex in Windows so I can 
work in latex using voice recognition.

Because I’m not a programmer the issues or questions I may have may be very 
basic so apologies.

I am following  the detailed instructions for installing auctex found here 
https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Installation-under-MS-Windows.html

So far I have completed successfully steps 1 to 7.  I have a question regarding 
step 8. Step 8 specifies that you should open “some shell (typically Bash)  
capable of running configure”.  As I am working on Windows there is no native 
bash shell that can run the configure command.  It wasn’t specified but how do 
you work around this?

Is the only method to complete this step to activate the “window subsystem for 
Linux” feature in Windows 10? Or is there another method that may be more 
straightforward?

I felt like I wanted to ask before continuing because I have first-hand 
experience with the precariousness of installing Linux  software on a Windows 
machine.  I wasted a lot of time in the past trying to install Vim plug-ins in 
GVim on Windows.  I eventually give up which is now why I am trying Emacs :-)

Anyway, any feedback would be appreciated!
Regards,
Mike

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