Installation

• Run git clone [email protected]:norswap/.emacs.d.git ~/.emacs.d.

• Symlink site-start.el from your site-lisp directory to the site-start.el in this directory. The typical Linux command is:

  sudo ln -s ~/.emacs.d/site-start.el /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el

  On Windows, the site-lisp directory is inside the emacs install directory (in doubt, try C:\Program Files\emacs).

• [Linux] Add .~/.emacs.d/init.sh to your .bashrc (or equivalent).

• [Windows] Symlink or copy emacs.bat to your emacs install directory, and run emacs via this file.

Note: to make symlinks in Windows, use LinkShellExtension.

Windows Shell Integration

• To use the registry tweaks described next, you'll need to copy or symlink emacs.bat to %WINDIR%. The registry apparently does not use %PATH% for path resolution, but at least uses %WINDIR.

• Merging the file registry/noext.reg with the registry associates files with without extensions to emacs. It is equivalent to typing the following commands in a terminal:

  assoc .=noext
  ftype noext=emacs "%1"
  

• Merging the file registry/unknown.reg with the registry associates files with unkown extensions to emacs.

• Merging the file registry/openwith.reg with the registry add an "open with emacs" item to the context menu of all files.

Troubleshooting

If you get an error looking like The directory ~/.emacs.d/server is unsafe, try taking ownership of that directory (setting yourself as the directory owner in the directory's properties - google it).