accustomed to compiling programs themselves. Corresponding source
can be found in the parent directory in emacs-24.3.tar.gz.
- If you have access to the World Wide Web, I would recommend pointing
- your favorite web browser to the following document (if you haven't
- already):
-
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
-
* IMPORTANT LEGAL REMINDER
If you want to redistribute any of the precompiled distributions of
* Further information
- If you have access to the World Wide Web, I would recommend pointing
- your favorite web browser to following the document (if you haven't
- already):
-
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
+ The Emacs on MS Windows FAQ is distributed with Emacs (info
+ manual "efaq-w32"), and at
- This document serves as an FAQ and a source for further information
- about the Windows port and related software packages. Note that as
- most of the information in that FAQ is for earlier versions, so some
- information may not be relevant to Emacs-24.3.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
In addition to the FAQ, there is a mailing list for discussing issues
related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about the
2013-08-27 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
+ * efaq.texi (Emacs for MS-Windows): Update location of MS FAQ.
+
* efaq.texi: Rename from faq.texi, to match its output files.
* Makefile.in: Update for faq.texi name change.
@cindex Emacs for MS-Windows
@cindex Microsoft Windows, Emacs for
-There is a @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html,
-separate FAQ} for Emacs on MS-Windows. For MS-DOS, @pxref{Emacs for MS-DOS}.
+There is a separate FAQ for Emacs on MS-Windows,
+@pxref{Top,,,efaq-w32,FAQ for Emacs on MS Windows}.
+For MS-DOS, @pxref{Emacs for MS-DOS}.
@node Emacs for GNUstep
*** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: subprocesses do not terminate properly.
This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems
-when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited
-cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at
-http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/.
+when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited
+cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the Emacs on MS
+Windows FAQ (info manual "efaq-w32").
*** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: crashes when Emacs invokes non-existent programs.
* Further information
- There is a web page that serves as a FAQ for the Windows port of
- Emacs (a.k.a. NTEmacs) at:
+ The FAQ for the MS Windows port of Emacs is distributed with Emacs
+ (info manual "efaq-w32"), and also available at
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
There is also a mailing list for discussing issues related to this
port of Emacs. For information about the list, see this Web page:
Use the built in bug reporting functionality in Emacs so that it
will be seen by the right people. You can use the command M-x
- report-emacs-bug to create and send the bug report, but in some
- cases there is a function to report bugs in a specific package;
- e.g. M-x gnus-bug for Gnus, M-x c-submit-bug-report for C/C++/Java
- mode, etc.
-
+ report-emacs-bug to create and send the bug report.
\f
This file is part of GNU Emacs.
this file as part of the Emacs source distribution, please read
those 2 files and not this one.
- Answers to frequently asked questions, and further information about
- this port of GNU Emacs and related software packages can be found via
- http:
-
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/
-
* Preliminaries
Along with this file should be six subdirectories (bin, etc, info,
* Further information
- If you have access to the World Wide Web, I would recommend pointing
- your favorite web browser to the following document (if you haven't
- already):
-
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/
+ The FAQ for the MS Windows port of Emacs is distributed with Emacs
+ (info manual "efaq-w32"), and also available at
- This document serves as an FAQ and a source for further information
- about the Windows port and related software packages.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
In addition to the FAQ, there is a mailing list for discussing issues
related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about the