Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

View longshi0's full-sized avatar

Michał longshi0

  • Warsaw, Poland
View GitHub Profile
@cdaven
cdaven / Spacemacs on Windows 10.md
Last active December 17, 2023 11:33
Setting up Spacemacs on Windows 10

Install Emacs First

Download emacs-w64 and extract somewhere, e.g. a tools or apps folder like C:\Users\<user>\tools\emacs.

Select Emacs' Home

Emacs and many other applications store its configuration in the user's "home" folder. Translated directly from the Unix world, that is %UserProfile% (C:\Users\<user>), but Windows prefers %AppData% instead (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming).

For simplicity's sake, override this by specifying the HOME environment variable explicitly. Emacs and some other applications (e.g. MinGW) lets this override the default.