Adding Emacs to Windows Right Click Menu

April 13, 2008 by Isaac

First of all, if you don't have Emacs installed on Windows then you should download it now.

Once you have Emacs installed then you'll naturally want to add "Open With Emacs" to your Windows right-click menu. To do this you'll need to make a registry entry. The easiest way is to copy the following text into a file, call it emacs.reg or something similar, and then double click the file.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open With Emacs]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open With Emacs\command]
@="C:\\progs\\emacs-22.2\\bin\\runemacs.exe \"%1\""

Of course you should substitute the path to emacs with wherever you have it installed on your system.

That's it. Enjoy using Emacs in Windows.

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