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What's the easiest way to get org-more (and Emacs?) working under Windows? Is there a same/similar setup which is more lightweight that can run org-mode? Any Notepad++ plug-ins?

I don't need a heavy setup for the Windows laptop that I use for business-y things and bringing to meetings.

(Back in the day I used to use Emacs and Gnus for mail and netnews, but I haven't done that in a long while.)

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On Windows, probably the easiest way is to use Scoop [0]. You can then install org-mode with `M-x package-install org-plus-contrib`

If you want to set it up in your `~/.emacs.d/init.el` config, you can use something like `use-package` [1] to make the installation easier :

```elisp (add-to-list 'package-archives '("Org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/")) (use-package org :ensure org-plus-contrib :mode ("\\.org\\'" . org-mode) ) ```

[0]: https://jrhawley.ca/2020/03/08/emacs [1]: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package

Org Mode should work out of the box, once you've got Emacs installed on Windows, I think? Download from...

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-27/

Then have a look at these tweaks:

https://caiorss.github.io/Emacs-Elisp-Programming/Emacs_On_W...

That I figured. I was just wondering if there was a more lightweight, Windows-y alternative than running a Unix editor under Windows. :)

Emacs is not a “Unix editor.” (GNU’s Not Unix, after all.) And it does not follow the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. But I’ll admit that using it under Windows is not as seamless as it is under Linux and BSD.

> not as seemless

Extremely clunky on windows, frankly. Installed it the other day and it feels so slow I stopped using it.

Indeed! It's so slow on my windows machine that running a linux vm with emacs installed is a big jump in performance.

I think in windows preview builds for win 11 you can now easily run WSL graphical applications which might work, but I don't know how easy it is with WSL to access the host operating system files.

If you want the latest and greatest Org Mode functionality, then you really want to use it in Emacs. If you want a limited subset, then an implementation in another editor (or a mobile app) might do.

I find that it works best when integrated with other Emacs-based workflows, like checking my email in mu4e.

As someone who's set up Gnus in the past you'll be easily able to dive back in!

Prelude is a nice lightweight config for emacs. https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

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