Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95 This file describes Emacs on Windows NT and Windows 95. Both ports support the base functionality of Emacs as well as the windowing features (colors, fonts, menus, scrollbars). Currently, due to limitations encountered with the Win95 command.com, only the NT port supports subprocesses. For instructions on building and installing Emacs, or obtaining precompiled versions, see the INSTALL file in this directory. This release should run on your system with relatively few bugs. If you do encounter Windows specific problems, please first check the web page to see if the bug has been encountered already. If not, please email me directly with a description of the problem, and please include the version of Emacs and the version and type of the operating system and compiler you are using. Also, if you are interested in testing out trial versions that are less stable but have potentially more functionality, browse ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/voelker/ntemacs/trial. A description of the current state of the port, including bugs encountered and workarounds, can be found in http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. If you do not have direct WWW access, then you can access the WWW using telnet or email: for telnet access, run "telnet telnet.w3.org"; for email access, send email to "agora@mail.w3.org" with "SEND http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Agora/Help.txt" in the body of the message. For more recent release notes, see the ChangeLog in this directory. Enjoy. -geoff (voelker@cs.washington.edu) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Old release notes: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12.15.94 Merged in 19.28 patches. Fixed myriad small bugs, including: * dired finds directories * random now really is random * directory-file-name handles UNC names * M-C key sequences (and [home] and [end]) now work * C-, M-, and M-C- punctuation keys now work * can change the bell sound using set-message-beep 10.26.94 Now up to 19.27. See nt\ChangeLog for all the gory details. If you've used a previous version, you should look over these changes that were made to the runtime environment for emacs: * For the .emacs file, switched from the emacs.dot convention to the _emacs convention of the MSDOS version to keep things consistent. Simply rename your emacs.dot or .emacs file to _emacs. * Emacs now uses INFOPATH instead of EMACSINFOPATH to find info files. (This change has been reflected in emacs.cmd). * Emacs now relies upon the environment variable TERM to be set; "set TERM=CMD" does the trick. (This change has also been reflected in emacs.cmd). * The system-type lisp variable "Windows-NT" is now "windows-nt" to conform to the existing lower-case convention for this variable. Many thanks to Sridhar Boovaragh and Matt Rhoten for the help in beta testing the software. -geoff 9.6.94 The Emacs port to NT has been upgraded to 19.25 and improved. It now supports: - dumping - binary files in a reasonable way - larger files (~12MB) - case-insensitive completion (actually, it only needed to be enabled) - proper expand-file-name processing (i.e., "c:\foo\d:\baz" does the right thing...can't believe I let that go so long). - adoption of MSDOS convention of using _emacs instead of emacs.dot - plus myriad other small fixes See the nt\install file for latest directions on installing emacs. -geoff 12.10.93 This is a port of Emacs version 19.17 for Microsoft Windows NT. Once the dust settles on the latest version of the main emacs source (19.22 at this writing) and I get more time, this port will be rolled forward. The port has most of the Unix emacs functionality, in particular subprocesses (and, hence, support for the compile, shell, and grep modes, among others --- for dired, though, you need a 32-bit version of ls for now). However, the port is still rough around the edges (the degree of integration with Windows is small as compared with X, for example). If something is very obviously broken, it shouldn't be; let me know immediately. For those people who feel particularly hackish, you can browse through the TODO.NT file and chip away at the remaining things that need to be done (this also serves as the problems file, so if you encounter a problem first look here to see if it's been noted). The vast world of lisp packages is relatively unexplored, for example. If you do fix broken lisp packages, or trace down bugs in the emacs source, send fixes back so that they can be integrated into the main distribution for everyone to use. It would be great to hear about bugs _and_ their fixes, but send the bugs too. Also, the port has been tested only on mips and i386 boxes. It will be interesting to test it out on other architectures. Read the INSTALL.NT file for directions on installing emacs. Regarding disk space requirements, with the mips version the build tree requires ~27 MBytes of disk space; if you install in the same directory, add ~3 MBytes; if you install in another directory, add ~16 MBytes. Enjoy. -geoff (voelker@cs.washington.edu) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For a brief history, Tim Fleehart did a lot of the hard work porting emacs 18.58 to NT. I upgraded the port to 19.17, changed the memory allocation, added subprocess support, etc. Drew Bliss then did a thorough job improving child process support, signal handling, and keyboard and mouse events. I am sure that I can't credit Tim and Drew enough for all that they have done, and hope they forgive me for leaving anything out. Darach Foskett and John Sichi graciously tested the distribution and provided very helpful feedback. As with any large piece of software, many others have also made contributions, but if I started to list names I would leave someone out.
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