Emacs Windows installation

Notes for required actions after installation of emacs on windows.

Warning: Emacs under Windows is soo slow...

Set home folder on Windows

Open Powershell in administrator mode and enter this line: setx HOME %USERPROFILE%

Add to .emacs configuration file

;; Windows OS
;; Settings specific for Windows locale saving style

  (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
  (setq buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)

  (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
  ;(set-language-environment 'utf-8)
  (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
  (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
  (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
  (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
  (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
  (setenv "LC_ALL" "C")
  

Using Doc-View for windows (pdf display)

install chocolatey

choco install xpdf-utils ghostscript

Gnus use of PGP for Windows

choco install gnupg