Barry's Emacs V7.2 Stable

The current Stable version is V7.2-246. This is an minor update of V7.2. See the readme-246.txt for details of the changes since version V7.2-208

Please help test if you are interested in the new features.

• Barry's Emacs for Windows
• Barry's Emacs for FreeBSD
• Barry's Emacs for Linux
• Barry's Emacs for Mac OS X

Barry's Emacs for Windows

The Barry's Emacs Stable V7.2 kit is available for Windows/XP, Windows/2000, Windows/NT, Windows/Me, Windows/98 and Windows/95.

The current Stable version is V7.2-246, released 16 December 2004, which is under going testing.

This fixes some problems reported Since the release of V7.2-208 and adds some minor improvements.

Download bemacs-V7.2-246.exe from Yahoo or from www.barrys-emacs.org

Windows XP installation has been tested.
Windows 2000, Windows 9x should work however have not been tested.

Barry's Emacs toolbars require Microsoft Common Controls Version 4 or later. The common controls are installed with Internet Explorer 4, however if you do not want to install Internet Explorer 4 install the Common Controls update.

To install:

1. Optionally install Microsoft Common Controls Version 5 update.
   1. Copy the Microsoft kit 50COMUPD.EXE
   2. Run 50COMUPD.EXE
2. Install Barry's Emacs
   1. Uninstall any pervious version of Barry's Emacs. The new kit will help you do this.
   2. run bemacs-V7.2-246.EXE

Installation Note

This version of Barry's Emacs requires MSCVRT.DLL to be updated. The installation may require you to reboot Windows to complete the installation.

Barry's Emacs for FreeBSD

The Barry's Emacs Stable V7.2 kit is available for FreeBSD V4.8

Download bemacs-7.2-246.freebsd.i386.tgz from Yahoo or from www.barrys-emacs.org

Motif is no longer required as a seperate install to support BEmacs.

Installation:

1. Remove old bemacs installatons:
   pkg_delete "bemacs*"
2. Install bemacs:
   pkg_add bemacs-7.2-246.freebsd.i386.tgz

The package installs documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/bemacs.

• readme.txt - the release notes for this release.
• HTML/emacs-documentation.html - Barry's Emacs HTML documentation.
• HTML/bemacs-faq.html - Barry's Emacs FAQ.

Barry's Emacs for Linux

The Barry's Emacs Stable V7.2 kit is available for Linux. I have kit for RedHat 9.0, Fedora Core 2, Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake 9.2.

Download the bemacs kit that best matches your system:

• bemacs-7.2-246.redhat72.i386.rpm from Yahoo or from www.barrys-emacs.org
• bemacs-7.2-246.redhat90.i386.rpm from Yahoo or from www.barrys-emacs.org
• bemacs-7.2-246.mandrake92.i586.rpm from Yahoo or from www.barrys-emacs.org

Bemacs depends on OpenMotif:

• Redhat 9.0 - openmotif-2.2.2-14.i386.rpm
• Mandrake 9.2 - openmotif-2.2.2-3_ICS.i386.rpm
• Fedora Core 2 - yum install openmotif
• Fedora Core 3 - yum install openmotif

Installation:

1. Install OpenMotif runtime: rpm -i openmotif-rpm
2. Remove old bemacs installatons:
   rpm -e bemacs
3. Install bemacs:
   rpm -i bemacs-rpm

The package installs documentation in /usr/doc/bemacs-7.2.

• readme.txt - the release notes for this release.
• emacs-documentation.html - Barry's Emacs HTML documentation.
• bemacs-faq.html - Barry's Emacs FAQ.

Barry's Emacs for Mac OS X

The Barry's Emacs Stable V7.2 kit is available for Mac OS X.

This version uses the X11 Server that is part of Mac OS X.

Download the bemacs kit bemacs-7.2-246.macosx.tgz from Yahoo or from www.barrys-emacs.org

Installation:

1. Start a Terminal session
2. cd ~/
3. tar xzf bemacs-7.2-246.macosx.tgz

Use the command ~/bemacs-kit/be to start X11 and run Barry's Emacs

You can symlink the be command into a bin directory on your PATH for more convienient access. For example:

ln -s ~/bemacs-kit/be ~/bin