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EmacsW32 is a collection of Emacs lisp modules and Windows programs you can use from Emacs.

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EmacsW32 is a collection of Emacs lisp modules and Windows programs you can use from Emacs.

Note that EmacsW32 is not Emacs for Windows; rather, it is an add-on to Emacs for Windows.

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How to make emacs accept UTF-8 from the keyboard

My friends have persuaded me to "try again" (about the 5th time in about 12 years) with emacs. I'm currently suffering a little, and need help with emacs + utf-8. I'm running the 23.3.1 emacs gui on Windows 7 with my own custom keyboard layout…
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How to run a Cygwin program (xemacs) without showing a terminal window?

The title pretty much sums it up - I like editing text with xemacs running under cygwin, and I'd prefer not to have it spawn a console window when I start it from a shortcut. Any suggestions?
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Why is Emacs Predictive Mode not working for LaTeX documents?

I have Emacs installed on a Windows 7 machine along with AUCTeX for creating and editing LaTeX documents. I recently installed Predictive Mode to enable auto-completion of LaTeX macro commands. Predictive Mode works when working in an ordinary text…
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Starting Emacs only once with different files on Windows

I want to have emacs registered with file extensions on windows, but only one emacs instance should be open, even if I open several files through their extensions. I have installed emacs from emacs-22.3-bin-i386.zip by unpacking to c:\bin\emacs on a…
mit
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Using GNU Emacs for Windows search functions with SUA/Interix

I'm using GNU Emacs 23 for Windows (running on Windows 7 64-bit) and I'd like to be able to use search functions like M-x find-dired and M-x find-grep-dired. The only Unix-like environment I am allowed access to is Services for Unix Applications…
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in Emacs 24.2 in Windows inserts character

I'm using Emacs 24.2 under Windows 7 x64 with cedet, semantic, autocomplete and other modules. In one of my config files I've defined (global-set-key (kbd "") 'semantic-complete-self-insert) But actually in Emacs when I type Ctrl+Tab it…
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Setting up X11 forwarding via plink in Tramp

I've been trying to use TRAMP to remotely access some servers at work. I'm trying to connect to a remote server via Emacs to edit R files and run an R session remotely. My set-up is as follows: My machine is running Windows 7 with Emacs 24.2.1,…
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Dead keys not working in Emacs 23 in MS Windows

In any program I type á pressing the ´ + a (in sequence). When I do it in emacs I only get a. The dead key only acts when I type an space. For example, if I type: ´ + a + SPC I get: a´ when I expect: á Any ideas on why this may be happening? It only…
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
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How not to show the welcome message of emacs/win32

Whenever I use emacs/w32, I get the following message. What's annoying is that I click the 'Never show it again', all the times, but it doesn't work. Is there any way not to show the welcome message?
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Cannot navigate down

After upgrading to GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN and Dired+ 20130812.1425 (elpa), navigation in Dired+ is broken. See screenshot below. When pressing the arrow-down key (diredp-next-line) I cannot move beyond…
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Emacs24: tramp does not work with plink anymore

I have been using Emacs+tramp+plink to edit files on remote Unix server since Emacs 22. Recently I upgraded my Emacs to 24, and found it no longer works any more ... it says it found remote shell prompt , but just stuck there. Below is my tramp…
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How to configure Ctrl-Shift-Left/Right to select text in emacs?

The basic problem I have is that mark-mode works like a toggle button. Every time you call set-mark-command, "C-Space" you get in or get out of mark mode. I could bind any key combo to (defun foo () "" (progn (set-mark-command) (left-word))) but…
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Using a given font for ASCII and another for unicode

I would like to set up emacs so that it uses -outline-Courier New-normal-normal-normal-mono-16-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 to display ASCII characters and -outline-Arial Unicode MS-normal-normal-normal-sans-16-*-*-*-p-*-gb2312.1980*-* to display unicode…
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How does emacs resume cursor position when we switch back to a buffer?

I am not pretty sure whether this is just the correct reproduce process. Based on my observation, when I change between buffers, such as this scenario: 1. I am in Buffer1:position1 2. I switch to Buffer2:position2 3. I switch back to Buffer1 Now I…
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emacs keybinding

In emacs, What do I press on my keyboard that corresponds with the keybinding. A-.
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