2025-05-03

Emacs on Windows

I had to set up my new work PC and I couldn’t remember how I’d set up Emacs so it would open properly from the task bar. After some messing about here’s what I did.

Drag emacsclientw.exe to the taskbar, and right click and open properties. In the General tab change the name to ‘Emacs’, in the Shortcut tab change target to:

c:\your_path_to\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe 🢱
      --alternate-editor="runemacs.exe" -c

Possibly entering the full path for runemacs.exe if it’s not on the PATH.

I also had to upgrade to the latest version of tramp as the latest version of PuTTY doesn’t work right with the version shipped in Emacs 30.1.