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["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Jack Zhang wrote:
> It seems we did not mention anything about the developing the
> wintexmacs stuff. I believe most of new comers have faced the similar
> problem without any clear guidance which means a couple of days time
> wasted.
Let's return to technical issues. What do you propose? That uninstalling 
TeXmacs should delete the .TeXmacs/ directory in the user's home 
directory? This would be very bad. There should be *absolutely* strict 
separation of system files and user files belonging to various users (yes, 
there can be more than one user in a system). Installing and uninstalling 
something adds and deletes system files. Under no circumstences it should 
add/delete/modify files belonging to a user (and which user if there are 
several?)

At the installation time, TeXmacs detects software it can use. There 
should be some way to do it later, if you install something (TeX, maxima 
or whatever) after TeXmacs. In Linux, there is such a way; don't know 
about Windows.

If you search the archive of this mailing list, you will find that the 
easiest solution of many misconfiguration problems is (for some user) to 
remove his .TeXmacs/ directory and start TeXmacs again. TeXmacs will 
re-generate various configuration files. In most cases, it is not really 
necessary to delete *all* .TeXmacs directory, just one or two files which 
cause the problem.

So, I don't see a technical problem here. Documentation problem, probably. 
Documentation for beginners is a difficult thing, writing it requires a 
lot of time. But it does not require abilities for programming, and can be 
done by users (a hint).

Andrey