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How to run gnu emacs on windows 10?


Asked by Henley Phillips on Dec 03, 2021 Windows



Once you have downloaded and unpacked Emacs, you can run the editor by double-clicking on runemacs.exe in the bin folder. Also in the bin folder is a program called addpm.exe which will create a shortcut for Emacs in the Windows start menu. GNU Emacs 25.3 on Windows 10 without any configuration.
Additionally,
To install GNU Emacs on Windows using Chocolatey: Once it has installed, launch Emacs from Powershell: To manually install GNU Emacs on Windows, you must download Emacs. This takes you to a server near you, which shows you a list of all available Emacs releases. Find the directory with the highest release number and click into it.
Next, Note that GNU Emacs for Windows comes with two executables to start Emacs: "emacs.exe" and "runemacs.exe". The former keeps a DOS-Prompt window in the background, while the latter does not, so when if you choose that distribution and want to create a shortcut, be sure to launch "runemacs.exe".
Indeed,
Windows versions since Vista allow you to create such shortcuts by pinning the icon of a running program that appears in the task bar. You can do that with Emacs, but afterwards you will have to change the properties of the pinned shortcut to run runemacs.exe, not of emacs.exe.
Consequently,
Emacs can also be compiled for MSDOS. When run on recent MS Windows, it supports long file names, and uses the Windows clipboard. See the msdos directory in the Emacs sources for building instructions (requires DJGPP).