Emacs on Windows

Installation

List the Emacs installation on Windows platform.

Native Emacs

VirtualBox with Emacs

-> Emacs on Arch Linux

Dockerized Emacs

Cygwin/MinGW with Emacs

Chololatey Software

choco install emacs

Unix Utilities

Formatter

Right now, I’m using Steve Purcell’s reformatter with Prettier and shfmt.

• Prettier: YAML, CSS/Less/SCSS
• shfmt: Shell script

Some Options

• https://github.com/purcell/emacs-reformatter
• https://github.com/lassik/emacs-format-all-the-code
• Based on Prettier
  • https://github.com/prettier/prettier-emacs
  • https://github.com/jscheid/prettier.el
  • https://github.com/raxod502/apheleia

Install Prettier

1. Follow this guide to install portable Node.js
2. Globally install Prettier using npm install -g prettier

Read More

• https://emacs-china.org/t/reformatter/8239
• https://erick.navarro.io/blog/creating-an-emacs-formatter-the-easy-way/
• https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-format-all-files-in-a-directory-with-prettier-5f0ff5f4ffb2

Encryption

Shell/Term

Debug

If you do M-x toggle-debug-on-error, you should get a backtrace that might show where the error is occurring.

Read more

• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html%5Fmono/efaq-w32.html#Other-useful-ports
• https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsMsWindowsIntegration
• http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs%5Fenv%5Fvar%5Fpaths.html
• https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/27326/gui-emacs-sets-the-exec-path-only-from-windows-environment-variable-but-not-from

Reference