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Add comment on mingw and windows paths

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James Dixon 2025-05-10 13:03:32 -04:00
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config/emacs/.config/emacs/init.el
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(gptel-make-openai "OpenAI" :stream t :key gptel-api-key)
;;; Platform Specifics
;; for Win32
;; TODO: check if fonts exists before setting
(if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
@ -758,6 +759,16 @@
(setq xfound (seq-some (lambda (x) (if (file-exists-p x) x nil)) xlist))
(when xfound (setq explicit-shell-file-name xfound))))
;; Still handy having cygwin / mingw for minimal set of Linux CLI tools.
;; Alternative approach is installing Emacs inside WSL, which has pros and cons
;; as far as configuring PATH, SHELL, compiler and interop between Linux/Windows.
;; Overall it depends how much you are interacting with the native Windows NTFS
;; filesystem vs developing for things inside of Linux.
(when (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
(setq exec-path (cons "C:/cygwin/bin" exec-path))
(setenv "PATH" (mapconcat #'identity exec-path path-separator)))
;; Have to change emacs init dir for Windows
;; https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/12886
;; (setenv "HOME" "C:/Users/itzja")