Programming Tutorials (1 of 4): Setting up Emacs

A quick tutorial on getting emacs installed and a few user preferences set.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• emacs
• setup
• installation
• install
• set
• up
• configuration
• windows
• .emacs

[BrightnessKnight]

Hi snietfeld.

I'm having a problem with the loading of the preferences.

As I open the Emacs i loads black and all but gives out an error that says (resumidly): "File error: Cannot open load file, d:/Apps/emacs/home/include/lis­p/myfontlock.el"

Guess i'd have to change a directory but i can't find wich. I did change the ones you mention on the video.

Hope you can help BK

[snietfeld]

You'll probably have to go into the .emacs config file and change the reference to "d:/Apps/emacs/home/include/li­s p/myfontlock.el" to reflect your directory structure. That is, change it to point to wherever myfontlock.el is on your computer. Hope that helps.

[arseniyt]

HOME directory for emacs is "c:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Application Data" so one can put '.emacs' there

[snietfeld]

You can, but once you get the hang of it you'll be customizing emacs a lot, and it's more convenient to keep all your emacs files together. That way if you want to setup your flavor of emacs on another computer, all you have to do is copy your emacs folder over and update your paths.

[Hermetiqa]

You appear to have a virus on your computer, called "Microsoft Windows".

Thankfully, this virus is easy to remove. For more information, please visit GNUdotORG

[BacklTrack]

Erg, emacs on windows isn't even worth it. Without the *nix programming tools it loses alot of power. I would just suggest something along the lines of Komodo Edit for windows.

[crazililalice]

yes it worked!!

[animeisart1]

got an updated vers. of this tut?

[liloprint]

Hi snietfeld,

I installed emacs on winXp and i got the next error when i start it:

Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `c:/Work/emacs/home/.emacs':

error: Font `-*-fixedsysttf-*-*-*-*-15-*-*­-*-*-*-*-*' is not defined

any idea why.

thanks.

[petux7]

Răspundeţi la acest videoclip...  It's imposible to work well emacs on windows because emacs can't

integrate in windows system

What you can use from emacs on windows it's a simple editor but you must know that emacs is more than an

editor

emacs is logical that not work on Windows.......................­.is the hacker's editor

[petux7]

@BrightnessKnight Simple way to remedy your problem is to install linux

[poojkhgf]

I read that Xemacs had more enhancement for use on a windows system so I installed that and am very happy with it. The commands are the same.