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Emacs in Windows

Asked 2008-09-03T08:04:11.700
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How do you run Emacs in Windows?

What is the best flavor of Emacs to use in Windows, and where can I download it? And where is the .emacs file located?

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I've run both GNU emacs and Xemacs on windows. I used to use it as my primary editor, email client etc, but not it's "just" an editor.

When I recently reinstalled to Vista I installed the latest GNU version. It works fine. So does Xemacs, but it does look like GNU have got their sh*t together so Xemacs isn't as compelling anymore.

answered 2008-09-03T08:56:03.637
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I've encountered this problem, and discovered the fault (at least in my case) to be the existence of c:\site-lisp\site-start.el, a file that was created when EmacsW32 was installed, and which was not removed when I uninstalled it. (Vanilla GNU Emacs for Windows has c:\site-lisp in its load-path, and will try to load this file, which somehow winds up triggering that error.)

Solution: removing that whole directory (c:\site-lisp) worked for me, but you should just be able to remove the site-start.el file.

answered 2013-07-16T18:05:05.110
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If You Mean Emacs as Latex Editor for Windows 7.

Emacs4LS (Emacs 4 Latex Support under Windows 7) for newcomer for Emacs. http://chunqishi.github.io/emacs4ls/

  1. Easy Steps to Install.
  2. Plugins Built-In.
answered 2013-04-28T06:41:24.197

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