This is a build of Emacs optimized for Windows 10 (1809) and higher. My build is tuned to look better and run faster on Windows for those of us (probably single-digits) who use Emacs on Windows as our daily driver. Changes include:
- Dark mode support (which got merged into Emacs 29!)
- Toggles between light/dark mode automatically when changing Windows settings.
- Consolas 12pt is the default font.
- Includes pre-compiled native lisp files.
- Compiled for Intel Alder Lake (12th gen) CPU and higher.
Example with Windows Dark mode and Light mode:
Download emacs-vince.zip from the latest release, extract to your
machine, and launch bin/runemacs.exe.
To install, I recommend copying the extracted files to C:\Program Files then updating your PATH to include C:\Program Files\Emacs\bin\.
Releases are 64-bit, built for Intel Alder Lake (12th gen) CPUs and newer. If you have an older CPU, let me know and I can produce a build.
Dark titlebarsDark scrollbars- Dark menu bar and/or menu items
Dark tool bar(tool bar colors can be customized via faces)Dark tab bar mode(tab bar colors can be customized via faces)Follow system light/dark mode.This is loaded from the Windows Registry when Emacs is launched.- Include default dark/light editor themes, and dynamically toggle between them when light/dark mode is changed.
- WindowsAppSDK
- WinSCP (see discussion and commits on their bug tracker).
- Windows Terminal (they initially published commits using the internal API on GitHub, then removed it).
- win32-darkmode (this code is quite grizzly but insightful)