Hi Manish,
Please forgive me in advance, I have almost no idea of what I am doing here, and I am, unfortunately, very new in the world of tech. Long story short: I want to use emacs on Windows 10 to (1) take notes with Org Mode, (2) write in LaTeX with AucTeX, and (3) display and work with PDFs with pdf-tools. I just installed the most basic version of emacs today, and when I try to open PDFs in it (using DocView I guess?), I get an error: "Cannot display this page! Maybe because of a conversion error!"... and at the bottom of the app there's a line of text that says "File mode specification error: file-error Spawning child process Exec format error". I have absolutely no idea what this means, nor the slightest idea how to fix it. When googling around, I came across some of your posts about this distribution (?) of emacs for Windows 10 64 bit that has pdf-tools installed (I am hoping that perhaps pdf-tools could allow me to view pdfs). I've read your instructions for installation, but I am still completely lost. I really don't understand the vocabulary for these types of things. I'll tell you what I did and maybe you could give me some advice? Sorry for having grandpa-skills with computing.
What I did: downloaded the "emax64-27.1-stock.7z" file, extracted it in C:. Then there was a folder "emax64" or something like that, then I went to the bin, launched the addpm.exe file, and tried to launch emacs again... but now there was some black box in the background, and I still couldn't open any PDFs in it.
I'd really love to get emacs up and running, it looks like it would be perfect for what I need---it's just proving to be quite difficult to set up. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Andrew
Hi Manish,
Please forgive me in advance, I have almost no idea of what I am doing here, and I am, unfortunately, very new in the world of tech. Long story short: I want to use emacs on Windows 10 to (1) take notes with Org Mode, (2) write in LaTeX with AucTeX, and (3) display and work with PDFs with pdf-tools. I just installed the most basic version of emacs today, and when I try to open PDFs in it (using DocView I guess?), I get an error: "Cannot display this page! Maybe because of a conversion error!"... and at the bottom of the app there's a line of text that says "File mode specification error: file-error Spawning child process Exec format error". I have absolutely no idea what this means, nor the slightest idea how to fix it. When googling around, I came across some of your posts about this distribution (?) of emacs for Windows 10 64 bit that has pdf-tools installed (I am hoping that perhaps pdf-tools could allow me to view pdfs). I've read your instructions for installation, but I am still completely lost. I really don't understand the vocabulary for these types of things. I'll tell you what I did and maybe you could give me some advice? Sorry for having grandpa-skills with computing.
What I did: downloaded the "emax64-27.1-stock.7z" file, extracted it in C:. Then there was a folder "emax64" or something like that, then I went to the bin, launched the addpm.exe file, and tried to launch emacs again... but now there was some black box in the background, and I still couldn't open any PDFs in it.
I'd really love to get emacs up and running, it looks like it would be perfect for what I need---it's just proving to be quite difficult to set up. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Andrew