Emacs + MSYS2 + Windows Task Scheduler a love story untold

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  • 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.

  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  • Install oh-my-zsh . After installing, add this line at the end of ~/.zshrc file - TERM=eterm-color.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • emax64

    64-bit Emacs for Windows with ImageMagick 7

  • 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?

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