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Table of Contents

• How to install emacs on windows?
• Windows is… \*ahem* overzealous about garbage collection
  • Don’t gc when I’m in the minibuffer!
• Open a windows explorer window from emacs at the path of the current buffer
• Desktop manager
  • Note: set “Process priority” to “high” or “realtime” to avoid win-lag on desktop-switching
  • Shortcut series
• Visual studio integration
  • Install “Open in emacs” VS extension
  • Globally bind Build.CleanSolution to Ctrl+Shift+C
  • Use visual studio-compliant settings
• Remap capslock to control
  • Open or download SharpKeys
  • Add new keymapping
• Powershell
• Cygwin

How to install emacs on windows?

https://sachachua.com/blog/2012/06/making-gnu-emacs-play-well-on-microsoft-windows-7/

Windows is… \*ahem* overzealous about garbage collection

Make sure that that’s not the case

; Debugging
(setq garbage-collection-messages t)
(setq gc-cons-threshold (* 511 1024 1024))
(setq gc-cons-percentage 0.5)
(run-with-idle-timer 10 t #'garbage-collect)

Don’t gc when I’m in the minibuffer!

See also: http://bling.github.io/blog/2016/01/18/why-are-you-changing-gc-cons-threshold/

(defun my-minibuffer-setup-hook ()
  (setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum))

(defun my-minibuffer-exit-hook ()
  (setq gc-cons-threshold 800000))

(add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook #'my-minibuffer-setup-hook)
(add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook #'my-minibuffer-exit-hook)

Open a windows explorer window from emacs at the path of the current buffer

Source: https://zhangda.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/open-the-path-of-the-current-buffer-within-emacs/

;; Neither version works atm :(
;;(defun browse-current-folder ()
;;   “open the current buffer’s folder”
;;    (interactive)
;;    (browse-url (concat “file://” (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name)))))
;; (defun open-buffer-path ()
;;                                         ;“Run explorer on the directory of the current buffer.”
;;   (interactive)
;;   (shell-command (concat “explorer ” (replace-regexp-in-string “/” “\\\\” (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name)) t t))))

;; Binding: M-W
;; (global-set-key (kbd "M-W") 'open-buffer-path)
;; (global-set-key (kbd "M-W") 'browse-current-folder)

Desktop manager

This is not strictly emacs-related, but it’s worth noting that I use Dexpot for tile management on windows

Note: set “Process priority” to “high” or “realtime” to avoid win-lag on desktop-switching

Shortcut series

Series definitions

num

1,2,3,4,<left>,<right>

asdf

A,S,D,F,<left>,<right>

Spaces

Switch desktops

Ctrl + series:num

Move window & switch

Ctrl+Alt + series:num

Window interactions

Minimize window

Ctrl+Win+ H

Close window

Ctrl+Win+ W

Visual studio integration

Install “Open in emacs” VS extension

Globally bind Build.CleanSolution to Ctrl+Shift+C

Use visual studio-compliant settings

split up config files for spacing, let default spacing on windows := VS-compliant settings

Remap capslock to control

Open or download SharpKeys

Add new keymapping

From

Special: Caps Lock (00_3A)

To

Special: Right Ctrl (E0_1D)

Powershell

(use-package powershell)
;; Add file extensions which should automatically launch powershell-mode
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ps1\\'" . powershell-mode))

Cygwin

• Note: here’s how to get out of cygwin’s root.
• I recommend following the advice to symlink /cygdrive/c to /c