emax64 VS emacs-configuration

I'm using a version that was compiled for windows. Specifically, this: https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64/releases I've not noticed any problems with it! I'm not a power user though. I've only been using emacs for a few years (since 2018).

I use Emax64 BTW. No WSL.

> On Windows my config doesn’t work at all. I have no idea why. I didn’t have the energy to debug it.

I'm a Linux person, but need Windows for work. I've used Emacs on Windows for over a decade now, and with the exception of magit, everything works just as fine as on my Linux machine. In fact, I have the same config for both, with only a few lines dealing with Linux vs Windows specifics.

So it may be worth debugging your config.

I use emax64, BTW: https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64

Try epdfinfo.exe from https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64/releases . Let me know if you need help setting it up.

[1] https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64/releases

I wonder how Emax would fare vs standard Windows Emacs: https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64

Me? For years I've been using Emax64 and things just work. I can see why some people may want msys2/mingw, etc, but many/most will not really benefit from it. What was your use case where plain Emax64 wouldn't work?

I am testing rho-emacs, but for now I'm happier with emax, since it facilitates integration with MSYS2. Just try for yourself and decide.

If you are wondering about my emacs configs here they are.

have been using pyright + lsp + pipenv for a while. this is currently my favorite setup for python. if you want to check out my setup its here . pyright is static type checker, so if it cant get typing information from the classes/declarations it cant suggest anything. i use it because it's fast, faster than the others as far as i have seen. haven't tested it with django or its models, but so far it works for both pure python and c modules.

I am mostly a linux user myself (like 90% of time on linux, and rest on windows), i have to use windows cause few of my clients require work very specific to windows platform. That being said, i did not find any satisfying guide so far that could help one setup his emacs with all his configs in windows in a more useful manner, like i dont want to install it in wsl, cause of multiple reasons which i am not going discuss here. I also don't use doom or spacemacs kind of distro, heres my config - https://gitlab.com/gSwag/emacs-configuration . I just wanted to use the same setup on both linux and windows and i have been struggling to get it done. On linux its so easy (at least to me), but on windows, its a whole different experience. But thanks to https://www.msys2.org/ and windows task scheduler, now i am running emacs as daemon (which starts at login), and it uses the exact same setup that i have for linux. Only difference that i can talk about is, on linux i use fish shell, but on windows i couldn't get it work with emacs (may be there's a way i don't know yet) and using zsh instead. But its still fine by my as long as i have the linux/unix tools (ls, cat etc), but using compilers/libraries built for windows. So lets get on with the setup that i did.