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GNU Emacs is the
editor that is required for use with this course. You
can download emacs-24.3.1-bin-i386.zip or a later version from GNU’s
Website. The file size is approximately 40 Megabytes. You
can also
download my personal customizations to Emacs. The file
size is approximately 1 Megabyte. To install my
customizations to Emacs, you will need complete the
following actions:
- Set the environment variable HOME to a sensible
value for your system. Sensible values include:
- d:/home (because the "d" drive on my system is
my second hard drive) or
- c:/home if you only have one hard drive or
- c:/Users/Davin Pearson/My Documents, where you
replace the name "Davin Pearson" with your own name.
This matches the same folder used by Windows 7 and later
for storing your own files. Under Windows XP and earier
versions of M.S. Windows, you will need to use the
following link: c:/Documents and Settings/Davin
Pearson/My Documents.
It is important that the HOME folder actually exists,
so you can put your .emacs file into it. If you don't
set the HOME variable, it will default to c:/.
This is not desirable however since a whole heap of UNIX
files e.g. .* (files beginning with a period) will
crowd the root directory of your primary hard drive.
- Extract the dlisp folder to your HOME folder.
- Copy the file dlisp/school-emacs.el to
.emacs in your HOME folder by issuing the
following MS-DOS command from your HOME folder:
copy dlisp\school-emacs.el .emacs
You can view
a FAQ that explains how to use Emacs on Windows Machines.
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The Cygwin Unix emulation
package is used with this course. Specifically, the following
programs are needed:
make,
bash,
rm,
sed,
grep,
javac and
java. You can
download the Cygwin
installer module to download. File size is approximately
300 kilobytes but that actual download size will be larger,
depending on what features you choose to install. You
should only need to install the minimum Cygwin functionality
to use the features mentioned above.
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