Emacs for Windows Modified
Emacs for Windows Modified is a ready-to-install version of GNU Emacs 23.4 for Windows (released January 29, 2012) with the following additions:
- ESS 12.04-2;
- AUCTeX 11.86patched;
- org-mode 7.8.09;
- Aspell 0.50.3;
- English, French, German and Spanish dictionaries for Aspell;
- libraries for image formats XPM (xpm4.dll), PNG (libpng14-14.dll, zlib1.dll), JPEG (jpeg62.dll), TIFF (libtiff3.dll) and GIF (giflib4.dll);
- w32-winprint.el, to ease printing under Windows;
- htmlize.el, to print in color with w32-winprint.el;
- psvn.el, an interface for the version control system Subversion, modified to include Koji Nakamaru's patch for supporting Subversion 1.7;
- vc-svn17.el, to provide Subversion 1.7 support for vc-svn on Emacs 23;
- framepop.el to open temporary buffers in a separate frame;
- default.el, a default configuration file to make everything work.
This distribution is based on the latest stable release of GNU Emacs.
System requirements
Windows 2000, XP, Vista or 7
Version
23.4-modified-5 (what's new)
Installation
Start the installation wizard and follow the instructions on screen.
Sources
The distribution is assembled from the latest binary distribution of Emacs for Windows, the source code of ESS, AUCTeX and org-mode, as well as from a set of files and scripts.
Older versions
See the archives.
Images and preview-latex mode
This version of Emacs bundles the libraries needed to display images in formats XPM, PNG, JPEG, TIFF and GIF supported Windows since Emacs version 22.1. Among other things, this means that the toolbar displays in color, that the ESS toolbar displays correctly and that the preview-latex mode of AUCTeX works to its full extent. However, the latter requires to separately install Ghostscript and to make sure that the file gswin32c.exe is in a folder along the PATH environment variable.
Emacs font
Tired of the Courier font Emacs uses by default under Windows? One nice alternative is the Consolas family of fonts introduced in Windows Vista.
- If the font is not available on your system, download the archive consolas.zip (247.2 kB) and copy the .ttf files in the Windows Fonts folder.
- Set the Emacs font by adding these few lines to your .emacs initialization file (replace iso8859-1 by the desired encoding if needed). Starting with Emacs 23.1, you can also use the Set Default Font... entry in the Options menu.
Unix applications
Emacs sometimes uses external applications that are standard on Unix but not available on Windows (for example: diff, gzip). When needed, install the applications from the GnuWin32 project. To make sure Emacs can find the applications, include the folder where they are installed to the PATH environment variable. (With thanks to Laurent Pantera for the hint.)
