Thanks Rainer,
That is probably something left over from an older installation of
Emacs. Could you perhaps try to delete or rename the c:/Emacs23/
directory and install Emacs again?
Yep.
You should take care of this, but I don't think it's related to your
original problem.
It is a bit related to the installer for Emacs+EmacsW32 that I
distribute. I have written it so that it does not delete the old Emacs
tree, but I think that is a mistake.
I think I will let it delete the emacs directory before installation. It
should be (rather) safe since a user should not put files there.
Any thoughts on this?
Hi Lennard,
First of all, a big thank you for making Windows builds of Emacs. I
always download your builds and install them when I am forced to work on
Windows, because I can't stand most of the other Windows editors :-)
I don't really know much about the internals of the Windows installers
of the packaging system of Windows, but let me describe an idea that may
be useful.
You could modify the installer to
(1) perform pre-installation checks. When it finds an existing
installation it can prompt the user that "An existing Emacs
installation has been found. Please uninstall it first, and rerun
this installer."
(2) Only remove the files that the installer itself added to the
system (i.e. by using some sort of "packaging list").