The idea in scimax for windows is to include an Emacs git submodule. See
https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/install-scimax-win.sh for
how I suggest to install it. Assuming you have git installed, you can run:
> bash -c "$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jkitchin/scimax/master/install-scimax-win.sh
)"

and it will download everything for you.

On completion, there is some helm, and some ivy. You can configure it as
you see fit. There are some things I like about each one.

John

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Axel Kielhorn <org-mode@axelkielhorn.de>
wrote:

>
> > Am 23.08.2016 um 20:06 schrieb John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>:
> >
> >
> > Axel Kielhorn writes:
> >
> >>> Am 23.08.2016 um 00:13 schrieb John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>:
> >>>
> >>> Checkout http://github.com/jkitchin/scimax. With git installed it
> will install an opinionatedly configured Emacs. Most of my students use it.
> I would just have each user install it.
> >>
> >> I’m using a modified jmax right now.
> >> Should I switch to scimax?
> >> Anything I should look out for?
> >>
> >
> > They are largely the same. The scimax repo does not have emacs in it
> > anymore,
>
> That is good (don’t need it on non-Windows platforms) and bad (Now I have
> to get one for windows from somewhere else, maybe jmax?.)
>
> > so it is a lot smaller. scimax tends to use ivy more than helm
> > for completion.
>
> All these different completion packages irritate me.
> I’m using some helm, let’s see how it works with ivy.
> (Luckily I have two 24“ monitors, a lot of room to place notes to remind
> me of new commands.[1])
>
> > scimax uses use-package for the most part to install
> > packages, but I think most of the functionality is the same though.
> >
> > The good news is, jmax is finally stable ;)
>
> I’m an org user, I love moving targets:-)
>
> >> Can I simply move my user folder and continue?
> >
> > Probably this should work.
>
> I’ll give it a try[2].
>
> Axel
>
> [1] Note to self: Buy some 3M stock.
> [2] Another automator icon on the desktop.
>
>
>