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I recently watched some youtube videos about emacs and became enamored with org mode and am trying to figure it all out now and there are a few hurdles I can't seem to overcome. First, I am on windows 7 and emacs uses %appdata% for the .emacs file and... home directory. This is driving me crazy because I think there is a disconnect between what windows considers 'user space' and what emacs wants is totally different and I can't seem to wrap my head around what I need to do. I know I can change where the home directory is - but where should it be and what needs to be there? Does the actual emacs program (/bin and all that) need to be there too? I (think) I installed a minor mode (darkroom) and yet M-x darkroom-mode gives me a 'not found' error. I can't get flyspell to work either. Basically, I need to know where to put stuff so I can find it. Should I just make a c:\emac\ and put everything there? Or in dropbox (where I want to actually write/save the files I want to work on?)
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# ¿ Sep 19, 2016 23:25 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 18:37 |
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Please pastebin your .emacs but be forewarned I am going to have questions because not all of that made sense to me. I will try my best to work it out first though.
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# ¿ Sep 19, 2016 23:36 |
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I think I'm giving up on emacs. I installed the darkroom extension from within emacs... it says it's installed but when I do M-x darkroom-mode I get 'not found'. Then added the stuff for MELPA to my .emacs and when I M-x packages-list-packages I just get 'failed to download melpa'. Am I missing something fundamental or am I just not smart enough to do this? I assume it's both.
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 01:33 |
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It's literally the default .emacs with the MELPA stuff pasted in.code:
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 01:56 |
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Ok, thanks. That worked. I installed olivetti-mode, which was a must have for me and it actually works. Amazing. Darkroom-mode still doesn't work but I think I can work around that.
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 02:34 |
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I'm on 25.1
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 02:50 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 18:37 |
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Thanks Neonnoodle again for posting your setup. I mostly got it working the way I want now. I have a few keys to bind yet but I figure that will be an ongoing thing anyway. I think I almost have the TLS thing figured out too... I am using the 64bit version of 25.1 on Windows and it needs DLLs to do all that. The ones I tried (I just found out) were the 32bit versions and they of course don't work. If I can get that running then I will have the same emacs set up on my laptop (xubuntu) and my Win 7 desktop. I also found that setting scroll-margin to a non nil (I used 20) keeps you from writing at the bottom of the screen all the time. Very useful if like me you despise that.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 18:11 |