Presently I have org-mode 6.16 installed, which came default with
latest release of emacs win32. However, I just downloaded version
6.21b and tried to do as you said. However, "org-version" is still
showing 6.16.
Will we have to unlink earlier version somehow?
Regards,
Saurabh.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Manish <mailtomanish.sha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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