How to save a list of all the installed packages in Emacs 24?

You can get a list of currently installed packages (excluding built in packages) from the variable package-activated-list. To automatically install them on startup, see this question: how to automatically install emacs packages by specifying a list of package names? More specifically, if you do C-h v package-activated-list, copy the value shown, and insert it as … Read more

Emacs – Error when calling (server-start)

I found this solution on the EmacsWiki: The problem is the ownership of the directory ~/.emacs.d/server when you also have “Administrators” rights on your account. Create the directory ~/.emacs.d/server and set the owner of this directory to your login name and the problem is gone. As I have a “Dutch” version of Windows 7 I … Read more