Emacs Installation on Windows XP
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I spend a fair bit of time with a locked-down Windows XP machine. Fortunately, I’m able to install Emacs which provides capabilities that I find quite helpful. I’ve had to reinstall Emacs a few times now. So, for my own benefit (and perhaps your’s) here are the steps I follow:
Download EmacsW32 patched and install in my user directory under Apps
Available from http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html
Set the environment variable for HOME to my user directory
Right click on My Computer, select the Advanced tab, and then Environment Variables.
Add a new variable and set Variable name to HOME and Variable value to C:\Documents and Settings\my_user_directory
Download technomancy’s Emacs Starter Kit
Available from http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit
Extract archive into .emacs_d in %HOME%
Copy my specific emacs settings into .emacs_d\my_user_name.el