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Questions tagged [microsoft-windows]

Questions relating to the use and configuration of Emacs on the proprietary Microsoft Windows Operating System.

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Where is official 64-bit Emacs for Windows? (The manual said there is!)

I usually download Emacs for Windows from the official GNU site: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ The latest version is: emacs-24.5-bin-i686-mingw32.zip I'm curious that why there's no 64-bit? From the Emacs…
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How do I install GnuTLS for Emacs 25.1 on Windows?

I just upgraded Emacs on my Windows 10 machine from 24.5 to 25.1. For Emacs 24.5 I had GnuTLS correctly setup and for 25.1 I did what I thought I remembered I did: Got prebuilt Emacs binaries from the GNU Emacs website's download page. I'm using 32…
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How to start Emacs without the cmd.exe window (on MS Windows)?

It says emacs/bin/emacs.exe. If it's not necesarily useful, I'd like to stop it from starting with emacs. The extra window is messing me up a bit.
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How do I set a different location for the dot emacs .emacs file on Windows 7?

I am using a Windows 7 computer and do not have administrator access. Therefore I can not place a dot emacs file in the root directory. Is there a way for me to specify a different location for the dot emacs file?
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Setting up emacsclient on MS windows

I am trying to set up the emacs server daemon and use emacsclient on MS Windows so that files can be opened quickly without the delay and overhead associated with starting additional instances of emacs for each file opened. I am following the…
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Set up Emacs on Windows to start a single instance and open files in the existing instance

I am particularly interested in the full Windows experience including: Automatically starting a server if one is not already started How to call emacs so that it utilizes the server (e.g. from command line or third party tools) Context menu support…
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Magit extremely slow in Windows. How do I optimize?

I am forced to use Windows 10 for a project. Yes, I would rather use GNU/Linux. To keep my sanity, I've tried to regard Windows as a bootloader for Emacs :) Unfortunately, Magit (one of my favorite parts of Emacs, which also makes up for the lack of…
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Easiest way to install Emacs Windows support libraries

I installed binaries of Emacs 24.4 for Windows and want to install the support libraries described in the Emacs for Windows README. The latest precompiled libraries are available from the ezwinports project, but installing them is a little…
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Git Bash in emacs on Windows

I can run the Bash shell that comes with Git for Windows. I put this in my .emacs: (defun git-bash () (interactive) (let ((explicit-shell-file-name "D:/Program Files/git/bin/bash")) (call-interactively 'shell))) Then M-x git-bash and voila,…
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How do I set up hunspell on a Windows PC?

I have my hunspell dictionaries at C:\hunspell\. It contains .dic and .aff files for three languages: en_GB, en_US, and nb_NO. The descriptions I find on the web about how to make hunspell work in Emacs make me confused. What is the minimum code I…
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aspell with emacs 26.1 on ms windows

After updating emacs to version 26.1 on a windows machine, I get the following error message from flyspell: Error enabling Flyspell mode: (c:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/bin/aspell.exe release 0.60 or greater is required) The problem is, even after…
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Comparing two text files on a Windows system

Since ediff-files and ediff-buffers result in apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, diff error on windows machines. How to compare two files using Emacs on a windows system?
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Is there a gccemacs (native-comp) build for MS-Windows?

I use the official binaries (28.0.50 prerelease) for MS Windows. I am using gccemacs on my home Linux machines, and feel like native-comp on Windows would be really useful for me at work. However, I don't have a MingW toolchain installed. Is anyone…
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How to remap backward-delete and help command while using Emacs from a terminal emulator?

I was using Emacs on CentOS 7 from the MobaXterm terminal on Windows 7, but the backspace key instead of backward-deleting a character invokes the prefix command C-h. According to EmacsWiki, I tried to put the following lines in…
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unicode.txt slowness

Moving around point (using the cursor keys) in Xah’s unicode.txt in fundamental-mode is noticeably slower than in an ordinary text file. Are the many non-ASCII characters the issue? Anything else? About: GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of…
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