Instead of GNU Emacs in Windows

Recently I've been using Sublime, mainly because of it's text coding support - I believe better then GNU Emacs in Windows environment. And for sure match better then Notepad++. Key points are: TextMate format support - finally, and python plug-in system, so configuration and plug-in creation is much better then in VisualStudio, but compared to GNU Emacs, it's not as good.

Enabling grep in windows emacs installation

New windows, means new emacs and firefox configuration.

First step is to install dired plus, so it would be easy to search using grep directly from dired.

To enable grep in windows installation of emacs one needs to install grep, it is a good idea to install also find utilities. I tend to change the find.exe file name to efind, because windows already defines find utility. Then add bin directory to windows path. And copy following libraries:

libiconv2.dll
libintl3.dll
pcre3.dll
regex2.dll


to emacs installation bin directory:

%EMACS_HOME%\emacs\bin

In addition in my last post I forgot to add following line in .emacs

(setq make-backup-files nil)


In terms of Firefox some additional plugins, that I tend to use recently:

Tamper data
Statusbar
Visual Event

My .emacs base

Each time when I move to next machine I install GNU Emacs on it. For the last 8 years it's been the best development tool (and much more), that I've seen. The problem is that each time when I set up a new machine I have to start writing .emacs file from scraches. Ofcourse I download from my gmail account some examples that I've used in my previous machines, but I fought that it would be nicer to get it from a blog, then search throu entire mail. Here is my .emacs base:

(global-font-lock-mode 1)
(show-paren-mode 1)
(setq dired-recursive-deletes 'always)

(global-set-key [f8] '(lambda () (interactive) (find-file "c:/.emacs")))

(add-to-list 'load-path "c:/worek/emacsPlugins/color-theme-6.6.0")
(add-to-list 'load-path "c:/worek/emacsPlugins/pink-bliss")

;color-theme
(require 'color-theme)
(color-theme-initialize)

;pink-bliss
(require 'pink-bliss)
(pink-bliss)

(defun load-dot-emacs ()
 "load dot emacs"
 (interactive)
 (load-file "c:/.emacs"))

(defun dot-emacs ()
 "find file .emacs"
 (interactive)
 (find-file "c:/.emacs"))