Hi James, if you don't know how to compile AUCTeX under Windows you can install the precompiled package: http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download-for-windows.html
Bye, Mosè 2013/6/16 James Yifan.Xu <[email protected]> > > 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 > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > auctex-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel > _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
