Questions tagged [microsoft-windows]
Questions relating to the use and configuration of Emacs on the proprietary Microsoft Windows Operating System.
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How to update emacs on MS Windows?
I have installed emacs 2-3 years ago. The version I'm using now is 25.2.1. I want to update it to the latest version, which is 27.1. I uninstalled it and then installed again to no avail, it is the ...
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Can I use Right Alt/Ctrl Keys as Alt/Super/Hyper modifier keys of Emacs in Windows 10?
I noticed that I've rarely used Right Control Key and Right Alt Key in my keyboard, so I'm wondering if I can use them as Alt/Super/Hyper modifier key in Emacs.
Is such a thing possible in Windows 10?
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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 ...
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Presenting part of the buffer in alternative way with editing capabilities and background recoding/validation?
Windows .reg files are almost human readable. Because some types require binary encoding, like:
"Name"=hex(2):54,00,65,00,6d,00,70,00,6f,00,72,00,61,00,72,00,79,00,20,00,53,\
00,65,00,74,...
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How to run a keyboard macro (saved in my init.el) automatically when Emacs starts up?
I have saved a keyboard macro in my init.el file as follows
(fset 'remember-notes-my-macro
(lambda (&optional arg)
"Keyboard macro."
(interactive "p")
(kmacro-...
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Emacs 27 Win 10 with WSL2 in org-mode, #+BEGIN_SRC bash, block appending \r newline character
Windows 10, now has WSL2, which enables one to use linux bash shell.
I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed as my default linux distribution in WSL.
What can I do to tell org-babel, in a src code block, what ...
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fresh install of Doom on Windows brings up a blank (white) scratch buffer and nothing more
Like it says on the box - I get the "doom loaded such and such packages on startup", but I don't get the home screen, and none of the keybindings etc. Just a white scratch buffer window with ...
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how to open a network folder in dired?
Unfortunately, I'm stuck on Windows.
I have a network folder under this PC. Is there a way to navigate into it with dired without mounting it as another drive?
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TTY Emacs from within Windows 10 - garbage appears when switching windows
Due to severe limitations at work I'm forced to run TTY Emacs on a remote Unix server via SSH (launched from Git Bash console under Windows 10... don't ask...). I got my dev environment mostly in ...
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Help required wrt. lsp-mode with gopls on Windows natively without WSL
I am currently running Emacs 27.1 on Windows 10. I am using lsp-mode with gopls with Go installed natively (without WSL). I am running into issues setting it up. Specifically, I am running into: https:...
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Is the Hyper modifier key usable on non-X11 platforms?
I have a hyper modifier setup, however I was wondering if it's possible to use this on any windowing systems besides X11, for example:
macOS
Wayland
Win32
The terminal.
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Emacs on Windows. Dired - no sorting. Unrecognized symbols
Set up Doom Emacs on windows. Works fine but in Dired i have unrecognized symbols and also in org-capture. Sorting in dired does not work either. Any ideas? Latest Emacs.
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How to make sure that Markdown files are opened in Emacs (like normal files) and not in an external application?
I have openwith installed in my Emacs. I use it to open spreadsheets, PDF, and other files in their respective external applications.
Recently I had an Org mode file with the following content:
* [[...
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echo $(echo $HOM) in eshell of win10 platform get void function reported
I am working on emacs-27.1 of windows 10.
PS C:\Users\gaowei> emacs.exe --version
GNU Emacs 27.1
Within the eshell, I tried:
~/.doom.d [master] Ī» which echo
eshell/echo is a compiled Lisp function ...
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GPG No Public Key
Emacs gives a error about not finding a GPG key.
The Error
Failed to verify signature archive-contents.sig:
No public key for 066DAFCB81E42C40 created at 2020-08-22T21:05:02+0000 using RSA
Command ...
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Start Process Not Working: Process List Claims Process Started but Process UI not shown
Start Process is not working when starting GUI application in WSL on Windows 10 Pro.
I am calling Start Process as follows.
(start-process
"yekneb-exec-2" nil
"/mnt/c/WINDOWS/explorer....
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Is the GPG signature of Emacs 26.3 still valid?
I was trying to install Emacs on my Windows 8.1 machine (thus WSL is not an option). I downloaded the file from a mirror (emacs-26.3-x86_64.zip), along with his signature (emacs-26.3-x86_64.zip.sig). ...
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Flymake stopped working with elpy…no idea what I did or didn't do [Windows]
I installed elpy, along with jedi, rope and got it to work briefly yesterday after uninstalling python and reinstalling it with anaconda and setting the environment variable to path. I tinkered around ...
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Emacs install folder vs .emacs.d vs .emacs/.emacs~ confusion [Windows 10]
I've recently run into complications regarding elpy and setting up virtual environments (see other questions) which have brought me back to a more fundamental issue that I must resolve before I ...
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Elpy Configuration…Setting Up a Virtual Environment and Pip Conflic with Conda? Need hand holding
Full disclosure: I installed anaconda and set it to the path variable. After I did this I was able to access elpy-config which I was not able to (see my prior question). I still pretty much have no ...
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Trouble installing elpy (totally newb to both emacs and programming)
I'm having trouble fully installing elpy. I supposedly installed it using emacs' GUI as you can see here.
I tried testing whether it works or not by trying to run Eratosthenes's sieve algorithm as ...
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Xref / xref-find-refernces / Windows 7 does not work
I'm struggling with Xref M-? finding references to symbols (C-code).
It doesn't work for (e)tags nor for any symbol even in the buffered file.
The Xref window/buffer with results is not opened instead ...
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Do I really have no fixed-width fonts installed?
In trying to debug a font issue in Emacs 26.3 on Windows 10, I ran the following, in the *scratch* buffer:
(defun font-existsp (font)
(if (null (x-list-fonts font))
nil t))
font-existsp
(...
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Emax64 trying to install already installed pdf-tools on every startup
I am using the emax64 build of Emacs for Windows x86-64 systems.
However, it tries to install pdf-tools on every startup, even though it is already installed. How to turn this off?
-*- mode: ...
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How to find a file recursively on Microsoft Windows with findutils (gnu find) installed?
I'm trying to find file recursively from default-directory with helm-find (C-x c /). It works out of box in linux.
I tried setting find-program like (I have git bash installed)
(setq find-program &...
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Setting up Emacs as an external editor on windows 10
Apologies if this has been asked multiple times already, haven't found a useful answer.
I am trying to use Emacs as an external editor on two separate applications in windows 10, one is a notes app (...
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Process shell exited abnormally with code 53 on windows 10
I'm using emacs 26.2 installed through msys2.
Recently starting subprocesses from emacs has stopped working for me. Specifically M-x shell and shell-command-to-string.
I get the feeling this is due to ...
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Where is `personal dictionary` for `ispell` located?
C-h v ispell-personal-dictionary shows nil. Its docstring says:
Documentation:
File name of your personal spelling dictionary, or nil.
If nil, the default personal dictionary for your spelling ...
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Two versions of Emacs on MS Windows: change the default “emacs” binding in the MS Windows shell
I have got two versions of Emacs on my Windows 10 laptop: Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) and Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32). I would like the windows shell to run the 26.1 version by ...
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Drag and drop a file to org buffer to insert a link to this file
On Windows it is possible to create a link holding the Meta (Alt) key while dragging a file.
Is it possible to create a link to a file when it is dragged from an Explorer over to emacs holding the ...
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emacs -nw standard input is not a tty on ConEmu and Mintty
On my Windows XP machine I use Emacs-25.2.1. During web app development I use ConEmu version 191012 and I need to use Emacs at the command line. When I enter emacs -nw on ConEmu, it says
emacs: ...
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Is it possible to run a wxpython app within Emacs?
I'm definitely transitioning to Emacs. But I can't manage to run within Emacs (vanilla on Windows 10) a simple script using wxpython:
-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Quick test for emacs and wxpython"""
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mu4e (gnus) MS safelinks decoder
Today I got scared after noticing how many Microsoft ATP Safelinks had made their way into my org-mode calendar file. Therefore, is it possible to create a URL decoder to bypass Microsoft Safelinks ...
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Unable to create a new commit using Magit on Windows
trying to commit using "M-x magit-status" followed by "c c", keep getting the following:
1 git.exe ā¦ "commit" "--"
Aborting commit due to empty commit message.
sh -c 'printf WITH-EDITOR:: $$: No such ...
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Changing HOME directory only for Emacs (on Windows 7)
Due to the COVID19, I am working from home via VPN. The HOME directory is set to a directory on the company network. Other applications use this directory as well.
I would like to have Emacs use ...
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How can I refer to the system default (Windows) proportional font?
Let's say I want to write a package which uses proportional font. But I don't want to hardcode a specific font, because the user may not have it installed.
How can I refer to the system default ...
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EMACS mode for Microsoft Word
Every time I move to a new Microsoft Word installation, I spend 10-20 minutes setting up all of the various keybindings. This time would probably be better spent creating a Microsoft-word plug-in that ...
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Org (and org-capture) uses English for calendar dates, no matter what I do
The problem:
When I use org-capture to write on my journal, it writes the month as April and the day as Friday. But everything in my system is in Portuguese, so it should be "abril" for the month, ...
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Cannot change cursor type on Windows 10
I've used emacs on Windows 10 for a year. Recently, my "box" cursor in emacs has become a thin vertical line.
I have tried setting the variable "cursor-type", but this no longer seems to have any ...
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Emacs on Windows sets DISPLAY to w32
I stumbled upon the fact that Emacs on Windows sets the environment variable DISPLAY to w32 (if the variable is not already set). This causes problems for example with OpenSSH.
What is the use case ...
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Converting init file on Mac/Linux to Windows
I use a package called Deft that needs a directory to store and load files. To define this directory on Mac or GNU/Linux I use the following expression:
(setq deft-directory "~/Dropbox/org")
When ...
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Experience with WSL as underlying shell (esp. with Texlive) for native win-x64 Emacs
I've been using MinGW compiled native windows 64-bit Emacs for a while, and I paired it with Cygwin to use especially Texlive, as well as other common linux and shell programs and commands.
I am ...
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Is it possible to override the column width in Emacs?
I'm using graphical GNU Emacs 26.3 on Windows.
At least on Windows, Emacs determines column width by looking at the AveCharWidth field in the font's OS/2 table. As the name suggests, this field ...
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Windows emoji input compatibility with emacs (i.e. emojify)
Windows has a way to input emoji by using Win+. or Win+;.
However Emacs interprets them with mixed results, more often than not entering spaces or garbage characters. Is there a way to make this way ...
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Emacs font style and colorisation
I am used to Emacs under Windows 10 and trying to switch to Ubuntu.
My Windows 10 Emacs font is M-x describe-font:
name (opened by): -outline-Courier New-normal-normal-normal-mono-13-*-*-*-c-*-...
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Can you generate a tags table for CMD scripting?
I am working on an elaborate script for Windows using CMD.EXE scripting.
It walks a tree of files and folders and uses our specialized file transfer program to send the tree to a remote location. ...
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Can Dired (or Dired+) detect symlinks in Windows?
Can Dired(+) be made to show symlinks in Windows?
A picture is worth a thousand words:
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Emacs on Windows with a GameCube controller for note taking
I'm running out of desk space and can't fit both my textbook and my keyboard on my desk when I need to take notes. It doesn't hurt my wrists to keep a controller in my lap and I have a fair amount of ...
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Creating ctag DB gives “permission denied” error on git-bash (MS Windows)
I am a Linux user (world was pretty neat; less to no headache)-- I've been using vim with cscope to wade through huge code-base....... And for some reason, now I have to use windows machine, here are ...
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Failed to update packages getting error “gnutls-error #<process elpa.gnu.org> -50” on Windows 10
When I run package-refresh-contents after running toggle-debug-on-error I get the following backtrace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (gnutls-error #<process elpa.gnu.org> -50)
signal(gnutls-...
