Dear developers, First of all, thank you very much for all the work you have done. I am very grateful for the free software, packages.and instructions. I see that you put much effort to make it accessible for everyone.
I am a biostatistician. I have been programming in R, and writing Latex for 5 years. Recently I started to use Emacs (with ESS & Auctex) on my Mac and I loved it. However when I try to install it on my Windows 7 all kinds of trouble occurred. I have been reading the installation procedure of Auctex for Emacs. http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Installation-under-MS-Windows.html#Installation-under-MS-Windows As a windows user who knows less than 5 commands in Linux, I have to say that I find the page very intimidating. For example, I don't understand "you can do this by typing the following statement at the shell prompt: ./configure --prefix='C:/Program Files/Emacs' \ --infodir='C:/Program Files/Emacs/info' \ --with-texmf-dir='C:/localtexmf' " or " If there were no further error messages, type make " I am not sure what a "shell prompt" is or where to "type" the word "make". I am more used to giving orders by clicking mouse buttons. I admit I should probably learn more background in order to understand the page, but is there anyway that I can configure it without learning another operating system? I just want to get it to work during the weekend. Thank you very much for your time! Best regards, James --
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