On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Bill Raynor wrote: > I and many others would be grateful for a detailed step-by-step > tutorial on installing org-mode on windows. The basic instructions > work just fine on, say, OS X (edit makefile, make and make install) > but don't work on windows. Using emacs on windows is quite simple > (download and install) but updating Org doesn't work so well.
Just unzip the org-mode in some location (e.g. D:/mystuff/org-mode/) and add following to .emacs (customize to taste/need).. mostly copied from Org manual activation section: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (add-to-list 'load-path "D:/mystuff/org-mode/lisp") (require 'org-install) ;; The following lines are always needed. Choose your own keys. (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode)) (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link) (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda) (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb) (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) ; Org buffers only (transient-mark-mode 1) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > In the past I've used dired to attempt to compile the directory > directly, which gets lots of error messages, but sort of works. I read > a recent post on installing cygwin, but that doesn't quite work, as > the post neglected to mention that you have to install cygwin + some > unspecified packages (to get make, for instance). I trying that now. I > am also using the W32 version of emacs. You do not /have to/ compile the lisp files, you can use just the source (by skipping all steps that ask for make in the installation section of the manual.) I am not sure how much performance impact will it have but it's an option at least. Do let us know how it goes. HTH -- Manish _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode