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Re: How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows?
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows? |
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Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:05:51 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.6.9; emacs 28.0.90 |
On Wed, Feb 09 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> In order
>> to use it inside Emacs, I add "C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin" to `exec-path`
>> (it's not in my system path). Does that make sense?
>
> Yes: don't do that! Git/usr/bin is a directory where MSYS2 programs
> used by Git are kept; you do NOT want them on your exec-path.
Gotcha. I've now added C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\bin to Path, though, because it
seems magit needs it. (That may be a bug, but that's a topic for another forum.)
I also switched to the MinGW Emacs from MSYS2, to make it easier to use other
MinGW tools from within Emacs.
Thanks for your help.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
- How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows?, Joost, 2022/02/08
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- Re: How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows?, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2022/02/09
- Re: How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows?, Óscar Fuentes, 2022/02/09
- Re: How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows?, Joost Kremers, 2022/02/10
- Re: How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows?, Óscar Fuentes, 2022/02/10
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- Re: How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/11
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