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Questions relating to the use and configuration of Emacs on the proprietary Microsoft Windows Operating System.

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Where is official 64-bit Emacs for Windows? (The manual said there is!)

I usually download Emacs for Windows from the official GNU site: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ The latest version is: emacs-24.5-bin-i686-mingw32.zip I'm curious that why there's no 64-bit? From the Emacs…
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Set up Emacs on Windows to start a single instance and open files in the existing instance

I am particularly interested in the full Windows experience including: Automatically starting a server if one is not already started How to call emacs so that it utilizes the server (e.g. from command line or third party tools) Context menu support…
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Using find command on windows

I'm running GNU Emacs on Windows 7 and was just wondering how to set up emacs so the "find-name-dired" command works. When I try using find-name-dired to recursively search for files I get this: find . "(" -iname "*.tex" ")" -exec ls -ld {} ";" File…
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Avoid cmd window for pinned emacs on Windows 10

This question How to start Emacs without the cmd.exe window (on MS Windows)? adresses how you start emacs without a cmd window in the first place. This works out nicely until you pin emacs to your task bar, close it and open it again. Now you have…
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Emacs dev builds for MS Windows

Is there anywhere I can download a pre-compiled executable of the Emacs development version, all built and ready to run on Windows? Doesn't have to be a daily build. Anything from the last month or so would be fine.
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msys2 emacs install not working?

I've tried to install Emacs on Windows (7) with msys2, however, I'm not sure if it worked. In any event, I can't find it on my machine. The install (following these instructions seems to go fine -- but then no Emacs.
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Prevent DOS prompt when using emacs as an 'alternate editor'

I have activated in Alpine email client the following setting in order to use Emacs as an editor when composing emails: [X] Enable Alternate Editor Implicitly Editor = emacs.exe When I start to compose a message, by…
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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 a local HOME directory without changing the HOME…
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Fixing keybindings of Emacs inside Putty on Windows

I have regularly tried, over the years, to run emacs through putty to get rid of the need to install a local X server. I remember the putty+emacs combination being abysmal in the past; and right now it seems slightly better but still outright…
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How to use dynamic-library-alist to load my own DLL?

I found Emacs has a dynamic-library-alist. But there's no instruction about how to use the libraries after it is been loaded...any idea? What I want to acheive is to load a DLL on my Windows system and call the exposed function.
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Where Is The .emacs file in Windows 8.1?

Hi all so last night I started using Emacs and I enjoyed it. Now I am looking to customize the look to the solarized port of Emacs. Now question is where is the .emacs file in windows 8.1? I have heard many answers to this question, I put my Emacs…
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How to bind CTRL- and CTRL- to beginning/end-of-buffer in Emacs?

Using PuTTY to connect to Linux from Windows and running Emacs: How do I bind CTRL- and CTRL- to beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer respectively? I've been searching the web for a while on this one. I've seen various suggestions but…
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How to run Emacs under Wine?

I need to debug some issues which my configuration has while running on Windows Is it possible to run Emacs binary [1] under Wine for that? The installer works fine, but runemacs.exe fails with this error preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range…
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Why is access to Windows shares (SMB) slow from Emacs for Windows (x86-64)?

I use Emacs at work for most things, on Windows, and things are mostly good (slow Magit notwithstanding). But one thing completely puzzles me: opening files or directories on Windows shares (SMB) takes multiple seconds. This isn't true for the same…
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Setting up .emacs and user-init-file in Windows 10 GUI and cygwin

Got a lot to learn in lisp but so far with GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2017-09-12 I'm trying to set it all up in Windows 10 to pick up just one .emacs init file but I can't configure emacs properly to see my .emacs file in…
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