Setting proxy on EmacsW32 when using emacs-starter-kit about emacs-starter-kit HOT 2 CLOSED

On the first launch, Emacs connects to the Internet to install a few packages. On other platforms, you can detect if you are not connected to the Internet and postpone the package installation, but I haven't found a way to do this on Windows yet. Suggestions are welcome.

If you launch Emacs once from a working Internet connection, future launches without a working connection will not be an issue.

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I added the following to my init.el near the top to get around this issue:

 (setq url-proxy-services '(("no_proxy" . "work\\\\.com")
                       ("http" . "proxy.work.com:911")))

Also, if you need to clone this repo be sure to set the variable HTTP_PROXY=proxy.work.com:911 or else you won't be able to hit github on port 80.

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