PowerShell and Git encoding problems To make git log command output properly display on Windows, we need to set a variable named LC_ALL: LC_ALL="C.UTF-8" Incorrect home folder in Emacs This problem is not only about Emacs. If you try to find a file from HOME variable, you may need to define the variable first: HOME="%USERPROFILE%" ;; place all backup files in one directory (setq backup-directory-alist `((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory))) (setq auto-save-file-name-transforms `((".*" ,te...