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This file contains a bit build of Emacs with dependencies as an installer package. Download this file and run the program to install Emacs on your system.
You can run Emacs like any other Windows software. Open Powershell in administrator mode and enter this line:. The location of the configuration folder depends on your operating system and Emacs version. If you are unsure where to store the init. Type C-h v for help on variables and type user-emacs-directory and enter. The help buffer that now appears provides the correct folder name. You can close this buffer by pressing q. Read my article on configuring Emacs for more information.
The Flyspell package performs spell checking on Emacs. Read the distraction-free writing for more information on how to configure spell-checking. The ezwinports project maintains a large collection of useful open source software compiled for Windows computers, including Hunspell.
To install Hunspell on Windows, download the software from ezwinports. You need to add the bin folder to your path environment variable. That did not work on the first try and I did not pursue it further. Many Emacs users recommend remapping your keyboard so that the caps lock key becomes a control key. However, I recently bought a laptop that came with a Fn key right where my muscle memory expects the left control key.
I hardly ever use the caps lock key, so I made it a control key for the sake of Emacs and for making it easier to use my laptop. I mapped the scroll lock key, a key I have not used in a decade or two, to caps lock in case I ever need a caps lock key.
My initial intention was to keep the original left control key as an addition control key, but then I disabled it to force myself to get into the habit of using my new control key. I mapped the keyboard of every computer I use to be the same. This has been hard to get used to.
I used the KeyTweak application to remap my keyboards. Some recommend using the original Control key after remapping the Caps Lock key.
I have two problems with that: it will not work on my laptop, and I first have to break my habit of using the original Control key as a Control key. Why not just remap the Fn key on my laptop? Unfortunately this key cannot be remapped like an ordinary key. I may try to get in the habit of using the right Alt key as my Meta key. I set global-visual-line-mode as the default way to handle line wrap. This causes text to flow as it does in most Windows programs. By default, Emacs displays the current line number in the mode line but not the current column number.
To display the column number, add the following to your. Emacs uses a set of terminology that is not commonly used elsewhere. The following correspondences are not exact, but they are a good first approximation. It echoes commands, displays the minibuffer, and provides a place to type extra arguments for commands. Another useful key sequence is C-c C-f to run latex on a file. I use LaTeX exclusively. I would like to have C-c C-f run pdflatex rather than latex , but I have not found out how to configure that.
I put these lines in my. You select a region by using C-SPACE at one end of the region and a selection command and moving the point cursor to the other end of the region. Then you can use C-w to cut or M-y to copy. The paste command is C-y. For example, C-y M-y. Use M-y again to paste the cut before that, etc. You can kill all but one blank line with C-x C-o. Emacs has commands for working with rectangular regions, analogous to vertical selection in some Windows programs.
Specify a rectangular region by setting the mark at one corner and the point at the opposite corner. All commands for working with rectangular regions start with C-x r. Here are a few rectangular region commands. Use C-s for forward incremental search, C-r for backward incremental search. Type another C-s or C-r to repeat the search.
Type RET to exit search mode. Emacs regular expressions must escape the vertical bar and parentheses. Use M-x replace-string and M-x replace-regex for replacing text. There are also interactive counterparts M-x query-replace and M-x query-replace-regex.
You can save a region of text to a named register for later pasting. Register names can be any single character. The command to save to a register a is C-x r s a. The command to insert the contents of register a is C-x r i a. Bookmarks are named positions in a buffer. All help commands start with C-h.
C-h k tells what command is bound to a key and gives documentation on how it is used. C-h w is a sort of opposite: given a command, it sells what keys are bound to that command. The command to open a file is C-x C-f. Emacs has a sort of File Explorer named Dired. You can open Dired with the command C-x d. You can move up and down in the Dired buffer by using p and n just as you can use C-p and C-n in any other buffer.
You can still use the control key, but you do not have to. Adding the following two lines to your. The command C-x C-b creates a new window with a list of open buffers.
You can navigate this list much as you would the Dired buffer. You can type the letter o to open the file on the current line in another window. You can type the number 1 to open the file as the only window. The command M-x kill-some-buffers lets you go through your open buffers and select which ones to kill. Table of contents Installation and configuration Installing Emacs and setting up.
Backup files Emacs automatically saves backup versions of file and by default leaves these backup files beside the files being edited. Windows Registry Editor Version 5. Getting rid of the start-up screen and toolbar I turned off initial start-up screen by adding setq inhibit-startup-screen t to.
Changing fonts I used the Options menu to change the default font to Consolas. Enabling commands to change case The commands for converting the text in a region to upper or lower case are disabled by default.
Spell check GNU Emacs does not provide a spell checker. Installing color-theme It was difficult to find a more direct way to configure the color schemes that Emacs uses, so I installed color-theme version 6. Installing powershell-mode I installed a mode for editing PowerShell code by copying powershell-mode.
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