Comments on: 5 Indispensable Tips for Emacs on Windows http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/ Representing Anti-Monotonistic Tendencies Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:14:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: kill registry http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-112784 kill registry Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:23:28 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-112784 <p>Seriously, KILL REGISTRY - why would ANY sane developer hook their app into the registry?</p> <p>I don't care if windows uses a registry, feck off!</p> <p>Also, I want to pass the .emacs file to load into runemacs.exe, but fecked if I can find sheeet about it online.</p> Seriously, KILL REGISTRY - why would ANY sane developer hook their app into the registry?

I don’t care if windows uses a registry, feck off!

Also, I want to pass the .emacs file to load into runemacs.exe, but fecked if I can find sheeet about it online.

]]> By: Carsten http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-111922 Carsten Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:25:54 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-111922 <p>Thanks for the "Open everything with emacs" tip! Makes my life so much easier!</p> Thanks for the “Open everything with emacs” tip! Makes my life so much easier!

]]> By: Emacs Tip: A Key to open the Current Folder in Windows at ArunRocks http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-84467 Emacs Tip: A Key to open the Current Folder in Windows at ArunRocks Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:22:56 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-84467 <p>[...] If the over-descriptive title was not enough, this is another one of my tips to use my favorite editor - Emacs. Some of you really liked my earlier post on Emacs tips on Windows, so here is one more tip to improve your productivity. [...]</p> [...] If the over-descriptive title was not enough, this is another one of my tips to use my favorite editor - Emacs. Some of you really liked my earlier post on Emacs tips on Windows, so here is one more tip to improve your productivity. [...]

]]> By: Arun bhai http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-84463 Arun bhai Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:49:57 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-84463 <p>@steve cooper:</p> <p>Thanks for your feedback, most of the code was mangled because of the way Wordpress formatted the text. I have used a code highlighter plugin now. Hopefully there are no bugs in this because they are copied from my working emacs installation :)</p> @steve cooper:

Thanks for your feedback, most of the code was mangled because of the way Wordpress formatted the text. I have used a code highlighter plugin now. Hopefully there are no bugs in this because they are copied from my working emacs installation :)

]]> By: BKB http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-74713 BKB Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:18:56 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-74713 <p>Tip number two was very useful for me. Thanks also to Steve Cooper for his detailed explanation with (slash) which helped me a lot.</p> <p>By the way, you can do tip number one all in .emacs:</p> <p>(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "dark blue")) (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "sky blue")) (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(cursor-color . "orchid"))</p> Tip number two was very useful for me. Thanks also to Steve Cooper for his detailed explanation with (slash) which helped me a lot.

By the way, you can do tip number one all in .emacs:

(add-to-list ‘default-frame-alist ‘(background-color . “dark blue”)) (add-to-list ‘default-frame-alist ‘(foreground-color . “sky blue”)) (add-to-list ‘default-frame-alist ‘(cursor-color . “orchid”))

]]> By: Adding GNU Emacs to Explorer’s right-click menu in Windows XP « Computer bits & bobs http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-74712 Adding GNU Emacs to Explorer’s right-click menu in Windows XP « Computer bits & bobs Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:06:23 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-74712 <p>[...] Adding GNU Emacs to Explorer’s right-click menu in Windows XP Posted in Uncategorized by BKB on March 6th, 2008 Thanks to this blog post and the comments by Mr Steve Cooper, I was able to work out a script which adds GNU Emacs capabilities to the right click menu in Explorer (the Windows file manager). Save the following file as “EmacsToRightMenu.reg” (or any other file name ending in “.reg”) then click on it, and it will add GNU Emacs (in the form of Emacsclientw) to your right click menu on Windows. [...]</p> [...] Adding GNU Emacs to Explorer’s right-click menu in Windows XP Posted in Uncategorized by BKB on March 6th, 2008 Thanks to this blog post and the comments by Mr Steve Cooper, I was able to work out a script which adds GNU Emacs capabilities to the right click menu in Explorer (the Windows file manager). Save the following file as “EmacsToRightMenu.reg” (or any other file name ending in “.reg”) then click on it, and it will add GNU Emacs (in the form of Emacsclientw) to your right click menu on Windows. [...]

]]> By: Dimitry Gashinsky http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-73813 Dimitry Gashinsky Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:29:26 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-73813 <p>Edi has good tips about emacs on W32 and other useful things: http://weitz.de/win/#emacs</p> Edi has good tips about emacs on W32 and other useful things: http://weitz.de/win/#emacs

]]> By: Salvador Jiménez http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-73806 Salvador Jiménez Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:09:19 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-73806 <p>Just a minor mistake in Tip #1</p> <p>You omitted the "\" in:</p> <p>[HKEY<em>CURRENT</em>USER\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs]</p> <p>thanks.</p> Just a minor mistake in Tip #1

You omitted the “\” in:

[HKEYCURRENTUSER\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs]

thanks.

]]> By: 5 Indispensable Tips for Emacs on Windows « Guide 2 It http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-73802 5 Indispensable Tips for Emacs on Windows « Guide 2 It Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:51:42 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-73802 <p>[...] 5 Indispensable Tips for Emacs on Windows [...]</p> [...] 5 Indispensable Tips for Emacs on Windows [...]

]]> By: novaburst http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-73798 novaburst Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:04:05 +0000 http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/20/5-indespensible-tips-for-emacs-on-windows/#comment-73798 <p>Do you know why the toolbar is grayed out with the new version of Emacs on Windows? It works, but it is ugly.</p> Do you know why the toolbar is grayed out with the new version of Emacs on Windows? It works, but it is ugly.

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