- apply for admin privileges on your laptop
- exploration
- which areas outside can you reach (and how: https, ssh, irregular ports)?
- CryptDrive (…)
- my home NAS
- HS
- which areas outside can you reach (and how: https, ssh, irregular ports)?
- Microsoft PowerToys
- … zones … (for splitting huge screens)
- Microsoft Sysinternals
- process explorer
- PuTTY
- ssh (already comes with Windows, but YOU NEED TO SET UP YOUR CONNECTIONS – e.g. for backing up YOUR FILES (diary, tools, git repositories, …))
- GNU Emacs
- Git Bash
- UNIX (AKA Linux) utilities
- perl
- git
- …
- xmlstarlet
- my own tool set
- create_snapshot.sh
- MEGA IMPORTANT: continuous automatic backup of YOUR FILES
- for as long as “automatic” is not yet possible and established
- the “emergency action” must get established (REMEMBER the c*m*l dr*v*r with his fierceful face expression and his kalashnikov!!!)
- backing up must get executed a couple of times each day
- TARring
- syncing
- maybe: “git archive”
- for as long as “automatic” is not yet possible and established
- …
- ??? busybox “w32”, preferredly with Unicode support
- WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux
- …
Category: emacs
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my 2026 Windows working environment
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GNU Emacs: Shell Commands in Dired
I especially like this example:
$ uuencode ? ? > `?`.uuIt shows how to use the file (name) passed to the shell command together with a prefix and/or a prefix on the command line. That’s not trivial, because around the “?” usually only whitespace is permitted to make the mechanism work.
That’s a true and amazing life hack, something that makes my life easier almost every single day of my life.
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emacs vs macOS keyboard shortcuts
In emacs I certainly use “ctrl-SPACE” a lot in order to mark a location in a a buffer. On macOS that is by default already taken. But you can change it anyway. Read the article above!
Where it says “In the list on the left, select a category”, select “Input Sources”! Here we are.
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GNU Emacs 28.1 released
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-04/msg00001.html
- https://emacsformacosx.com – and you can find 28.1 ready-made for macOSX on “Emacs For Mac OS X”
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Emacs and Microsoft Windows
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Microsoft-Windows.html
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
- C:\Program Files\Emacs\x86_64\share\emacs\VER\README.W32 – read it! for serious!
- C:\Program Files\Emacs\x86_64\bin\ – where the utilities are located
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
- https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/
I use to download and install emacs-VER-x86_64.zip , it contains “a large number of optional dependencies for Emacs” – maybe you want to install that into c:\opt\emacs-VER\.
emacs-VER-installer.exe – a Windows installer – installs into C:\Program Files\Emacs\ .
Utilities described in the README.32 – read their entries (!):
- addpm.exe
- runemacs.exe
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Git for Windows – comes with a nice minimal GNU shell environment
- https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/FAQ
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mingw-w64#MSYS2 – GfW is based on MSYS2; MSYS2 provides a Unix environment to Windows
- https://www.msys2.org – …
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows – MSYS2 users can install GNU Emacs using a pacman command line
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ – I wonder whether I can get this GNU Emacs for Windows to cooperate with the MSYS2 provided by GfW
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Microsoft-Windows.html
- I guess the ordinary way to start GfW is through “Git Bash” in the “Git” group, that you reach through “Start”
- but I like ConEmu better than mintty, and I can start “C:\Program Files\Git\bin/bash.exe”
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my 2021 Windows working environment
I would actually rather prefer Windows Terminal over ConEmu, because I assume it will be the new standard in the Windows world – but then in my professional Windows environment Group Policies do not allow “apps” – and then … ConEmu is quite nice.
Windows Terminal (CAVEAT: did no achieve it):
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Terminal
- https://aka.ms/terminal
- https://aka.ms/terminal-docs
- https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
ConEmu – a Windows console alternative, where you can paste text w/o using the mouse 😎
Last not least: WSL resp. WSL2:
My WSL is still a pre-GUI WSL, because my Windows 10 is not new enough – I can’t get my Windows admins to update my Windows 10 in order to achieve that.
Within WSL I run CentOS-7, because it makes me more used to what I need these days.
And …:
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html
- MSYS2 (Emacs for Windows uses a minimal set of MSYS2) (CAVEAT: did no achieve it)
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/efaq-w32.html#MinGW
- 7-zip
- …
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disable colours in Emacs
- https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AngryFruitSalad
- http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.html
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/angry_fruit_salad
- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2002/09/05/unix_tip_disable_colors_in_ema.html
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108257/how-do-i-stop-emacs-from-colouring-the-text-of-the-file-i-am-editing#108272
To disable colouring in your current buffer, toggle font-lock-mode off with this command (my ad-hoc solution):
M-x font-lock-mode
To disable font-lock-mode “permanently” – see above!
You may still find coloured remainders – but it’s not as bad any longer.
Continued:
One day I suddenly noticed what should have been obvious from the beginning (in that environment):
$ echo $TERM xterm-256colorNow it was clear how to disable colours effectively in a non-GUI Emacs:
$ env TERM=xterm emacs