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2017-02-17 23:40 Cygwin emacs-w32 with Administrator privileges

With modern Windows privileges schema (unlike in Windows XP) Emacs can't save edits to many files placed in special directories (like "Program Files").

To allow saving of modification you should grand Administrator privileges to Emacs process.

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2017-01-24 14:00 Emacs 25 on Windows

I haven't used Windows for a long time and my new job may require Windows environment. So I checked out new ways to use Emacs under Windows.

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emacs, win, cygwin

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