Questions tagged [microsoft-windows]
Questions relating to the use and configuration of Emacs on the proprietary Microsoft Windows Operating System.
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Is there any reason why the unexpected character added?
I added python-shell-interpreter in .emacs file, and god the error as you can see the below.
Why is there \ characters? and how can I solve this?
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Interactive terminal solution for Emacs on Windows?
I recently tried to move from over to Emacs but hit a brick wall while trying to setup a terminal. While shell and eshell work fine, they are not really interactive so you can't really run things such ...
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Custom compilation command fails on Windows due to slashes in paths
when i type on "shell":
c:\Users\TR\Desktop\emacs-27.2-x86_64\bin\GAMES\game3>love .
works fine but when i put
(defun insert-file-name ()
(interactive)
(let ((compilation-ask-about-...
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(org-babel-load-file (expand-file-name “~/.emacs.d/config.org”)) behaves strangely on Windows 7
In my initialization file the line
(when (file-readable-p "~/.emacs.d/config.org")
(org-babel-load-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/config.org")))
give me the error:
*Warning (...
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WSL: emacs gui won't start
I'm on Windows 10 Pro 10.0.21337 (windows insider program) and installed WSL with Ubuntu 20.04.
From within ubuntu I said
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install emacs
dpkg -l emacs
->
||/ ...
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formated string format around quotes
I am running Emacs on MS Windows. When I use C-c to call doc-view, the default autocomplete is
("\\doc-view \"%r.pdf\"" "%r.pdf") in tex-mode.el. However, this would add ...
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Launch an external command prompt (cmd.exe) in a specific folder [duplicate]
I'm trying to build a cmd interactive function in Emacs, which would open a Windows command prompt - exactly like Win+R cmd does. Within Emacs, it would be accessible with M-x cmd, and it would open ...
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How to use Emacs to prevent screen lock from activating (Windows)
My employer has a pretty paranoid screen locking policy on Windows machines. There's no way to override the time settings for the lock. My colleagues an I have been experimenting with various homebrew ...
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Send string to a fully functional REPL in Emacs on Windows?
Summary. Is there a way to get fully functional REPLs on Windows running in Emacs. I want to avoid the maintenance burden associated with comint.
Long version. In many cases I dislike how the built-...
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How can one debug a situation when emacs is unresponsive on Windows?
There is an operation in my setup which makes emacs unresponsive with high CPU.
I checked the emacs process with process monitor, but it does not wait for an other process, so I guess it must be ...
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Different folder for .emacs (not HOME)
My company's I.T. department has assigned our HOME directory to a network server.
With the COVID-19 pandemic we are now using VPN to connect to the company's network.
Having to to go through VPN to ...
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magit on Windows over plink tramp
I'm scratching my head on this problem, but I cannot seem to use magit on a project served over plink or plinkx on Windows.
What does work:
The windows client can use magit on a project stored ...
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How to change default shell for Emacs on MS Windows?
I'm very new to Emacs (using Doom Emacs) as a former Vim user, and I've been loving it. However, I've been having issues trying to get irony-server to run. From what little I've been able to gather (...
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Opening file after org-export in external program fails, but works with different invocation methods
I'm using emacs in Win10 WSL 2 Linux and call a custom script open in my $PATH to open files from WSL-Linux/emacs in Windows GUI. My .mailcap makes sure that the script is actually being used and the ...
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How to make Dragon Naturally Speaking work with multiple MS Windows users?
I'm attempting to use Dragon Naturally Speaking (15.3) to dictate into Emacs (version 26.3). I have two accounts using Windows 10 on the same laptop. From one account, Dragon inserts text into Emacs ...
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How can I get Emacs to release a locking folder handle?
After using Emacs to open a file in a folder on MS Windows using emacsclientw -n, killing the buffer does not release a handle Emacs has to the folder, so the folder can't be deleted.
GNU Emacs 27.1 (...
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DocView: Nuisance popup of page number in viewing .dvi files
I use DocView under Emacs 26.1 under Cygwin 10.0.2 under Windows 10.0. I use it chiefly for reading .dvi files. I discovered it by accident and find it extremely useful, but I cannot find any ...
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Copy/Paste (yank) problems with emacs in WSL2 with VcXsrv (from clipboard)
I have two problems with emacs when I'm using it with WSL2 and VcXsrv.
When I copy something out of emacs and paste/yank it in a buffer, it usually works smoothly except for two cases:
If I select ...
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gccemacs on windows10 compile error
I try to compile gccemacs (emacs feature/native-comp branch) on windows 10, thanks to msys2/mingw64 and the libgccjit package recently available.
Here is the error :
../../src/comp.c: In function '...
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Switch desktops hotkey on Windows is not ignored by Emacs
The following keys:
Ctrl-Win-Left
Ctrl-Win-Right
are used to switch desktops on Windows.
If Emacs is the active window when you use either of these keys, you get the following in the minibuffer:
If ...
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Jupyter notebook, matplotlib visualization not showing up
I am a new Emacs user and proceeded to the install following the tutorial at: https://realpython.com/emacs-the-best-python-editor/#integration-with-jupyter-and-ipython. Now I am running a Jupyter ...
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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] λ 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 ...
