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Re: [Orgmode] Installing on windows
From: |
Tim O'Callaghan |
Subject: |
Re: [Orgmode] Installing on windows |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 00:19:45 +0100 |
> Obviously, I do not fully understand the initialization sequence for
> EmacsW32. Could someone using EmacsW32 throw some more light on a
> better procedure/technique to install Org-mode on it?
>
Hi,
I run the same installation of org in Xemacs & Emacs on Windows+Cygwin
& Linux/Unix.
Currently i have these native versions installed:
* GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-06-30 on
LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
* XEmacs 21.4 (patch 21) "Educational Television" [Lucid]
(i586-pc-win32) of Sun Oct 07 2007 on VSHELTON-PC2
The basic technique is:
1) do not compile any source to EL files.
2) make sure the HOME environmental variable is set correctly.
3) use the (expand-filename) function, and relative filenames. It
makes everything work cross platform.
Here is an quick walk through my (X)Emacs setup.
My .emacs:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defconst toc:zemacsen-dir "~/.zemacsen_d/"
"Path to xemacsen root directory and the init.el file")
(defconst toc:zemacsen-site-lisp-dir (concat toc:zemacsen-dir "site-lisp/")
"Path to (x)emacs lisp includes")
(load (expand-file-name (concat toc:zemacsen-dir "init")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Notice the ~/ unix style relative paths? expand-filename converts that
into the value of your HOME environmental variable. This must be set
for Cygwin, but is also useful for other unixlike tools.
so if "HOME=C:\home\", this code loads the file
"C:\home\.zemacsen\init.el" which is my "real" (x)emacs configuration
file.
I then have a function that does something like:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name (concat
toc:zemacsen-site-lisp-dir "org-mode/lisp")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Which places "c:/home/.zemacsen_d/site-lisp/org-mode" at the
beginning of the load-path list, trumping any other installation. You
can check with "alt-x describe-variable load-path " to make sure it's
at the start of the load-path list.
Here is the function and its org usage:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun toc:add-to-load-path (dirlist)
(dolist (dir dirlist load-path)
(setq dir (expand-file-name (concat toc:zemacsen-site-lisp-dir dir)))
(if (file-directory-p dir)
(add-to-list 'load-path dir))))
(toc:add-to-load-path '("org-mode/lisp/"
"org-mode/contrib/lisp/"
"org-mode/xemacs/"
"remember/"))
;; Initialize org
(cond ((featurep 'xemacs)
(require 'noutline)
(require 'ps-print-invisible)))
(require 'org)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I have a similar setup for exec-path, to make sure my preferred
windows binaries are found before the windows system ones.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun toc:add-to-exec-path (dirlist &optional front)
(dolist (dir dirlist exec-path)
(setq edir (expand-file-name dir))
(setq qdir (shell-quote-argument (expand-file-name dir)))
(message "Testing PATH:= %s" dir)
(cond ((file-directory-p dir)
(add-to-list 'exec-path dir front)
(message "Searching PATH:= %s <--> %s" (regexp-quote dir)
(getenv "PATH"))
(unless (string-match (regexp-quote dir) (getenv "PATH"))
(message "Adding PATH:= %s\n" dir)
(if front
(setenv "PATH" (concat dir path-separator (getenv "PATH")))
(setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") path-separator dir))))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I'm sure its not pretty (or optimised) but, what can i say but that so
far it works for me (almost) everywhere.
hope that helps.
Tim.
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Re: [Orgmode] Installing on windows,
Tim O'Callaghan <=