[tex-live] TL2003+XEmacs/Win -->TL2005

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> writes:

  > Hi Peter, I had a call from a user who has TL2003 on Windows with
  > XEmacs and wants to upgrade to TL2005. Is XEmacs for Windows
  > included in the TL2005 DVD?

  > I don't believe so.

Some thoughts regarding TL-2006:

TL-2005 provides GNU-Emacs but unfortunately there is no configuration
to make it usable for TeX conveniently.

A colleague used TL-2005 and it was not easy to install auc-tex under
Windows because we couldn't make use of the Makefile.  Fortunately, I
have cygwin on my machine.  Of course, everything can be done manually
but it takes more time and this is not what I'm payed for.

For TL-2006 it would be nice to have a site-start.el which loads
auc-tex and reftex (at least).  It would be even much nicer if we can
convince David Kastrup to look into it to make sure everything is
installed properly and up-to-date.

I'm sure that a well configured Emacs is also very useful under UNIX
when people use the live system.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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