Emacs for Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98/ME
- Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
This directory contains support for compiling and running GNU Emacs on
Building and installing Emacs will produce the following executable
files in the bin directory.
- + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run
+ + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run
as both a text-mode application (emacs -nw) and as a GUI application,
it will pop up a command prompt window if run directly from Explorer.
+ runemacs.exe - A wrapper for running Emacs as a GUI application
- without popping up a command prompt window.
+ without popping up a command prompt window. If you create a
+ desktop shortcut for invoking Emacs, make it point to this
+ executable, not to emacs.exe.
+ emacsclient.exe - A command-line client program that can
- communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server'
+ communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server'
node of the Emacs manual.
+ emacsclientw.exe - A version of emacsclient that does not open
+ addpm.exe - A basic installer that creates Start Menu icons for Emacs.
Running this is optional.
- + cmdproxy.exe - Used internally by Emacs to work around problems with
- the native shells in various versions of Windows.
-
+ ctags.exe, etags.exe - Tools for generating tag files. See the
- `Tags' node of the Emacs manual.
+ `Tags' node of the Emacs manual.
+ ebrowse.exe - A tool for generating C++ browse information. See the
`Ebrowse' manual.
+ Several helper programs are installed in a version-specific
+ subdirectory of the libexec directory:
+
+ + cmdproxy.exe - Used internally by Emacs to work around problems with
+ the native shells in various versions of Windows.
+
+ ddeclient.exe - A tool for interacting with DDE servers. To be
invoked as "ddeclient SERVER [TOPIC]", where SERVER is the DDE
server name, and sends each line of its standard input to the DDE
supposed to be invoked via the 'call-process-region' Emacs
primitive.
- + hexl.exe - A tool for converting files to hex dumps. See the
+ + hexl.exe - A tool for producing hex dumps of binary files. See the
`Editing Binary Files' node of the Emacs manual.
+ movemail.exe - A helper application for safely moving mail from
a mail spool or POP server to a local user mailbox. See the
`Movemail' node of the Emacs manual.
+ + profile.exe - A helper program that generates periodic events for
+ profiling Emacs Lisp code.
+
+ + update-game-score.exe - A utility for updating the score files of
+ Emacs games.
+
* Further information
- The FAQ for the MS Windows port of Emacs is distributed with Emacs
- (info manual "efaq-w32"), and also available at
+ The Emacs User manual describes Windows-specific issues in the
+ appendix named "Emacs and Microsoft Windows/MS-DOS". You can read
+ it in Emacs by typing
+
+ C-h r g Microsoft Windows RET
+
+ This appendix is also available (as part of the entire manual) at
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#Microsoft-Windows
- There is also a mailing list for discussing issues related to this
- port of Emacs. For information about the list, see this Web page:
+ In addition to the manual, there is a mailing list for discussing
+ issues related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about
+ the list, see this Web page:
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows