Emacs on Windows 7
Links during my adventures to configure Emacs for Windows 7
The goal is the make emacs a more comfortable experience than VS2013 on Windows 7.
- First install the latest version of emacs using chocolatey.org.
- Then install the following packages (emacs v. >=24)
- Prelude: Starter pack
- Omnisharp: for C# & .NET
- Omnisharp-server: Server for omnisharp
- fsharpbinding: F# language support for open editors
Found solutions to problems that arose:
- When using
C-c C-c
to compile, there were some problems with the paths.- First I had to setup PATH variables for
MSBuild.exe
andFsc.exe
, and then figure out howemacs
prefers paths with spaces in Windows.
- First I had to setup PATH variables for
- To build F# projects, we want to use
MSBuild.exe
- To compile F# projects, we want to use
Fsc.exe
- TODO: Look into F# FAKE