From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: smits.gerard.j@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 15:20:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <00f07e0f-9846-4ae6-9a65-3f65e12d80ca@googlegroups.com> References: <3172bfe2-d1b5-43d8-8b61-0820768d6e4a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451777130 9635 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2016 23:25:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 23:25:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 03 00:25:23 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFVXz-0002YB-Av for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:25:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFVXy-0002RQ-Gx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:25:18 -0500 X-Received: by 10.50.79.198 with SMTP id l6mr47879366igx.2.1451776811036; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 15:20:11 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.114.105 with SMTP id jf9mr1189351igb.1.1451776811022; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 15:20:11 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!mv3no24704031igc.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni41343igq.0!nntp.google.com!mv3no24704024igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=98.171.169.190; posting-account=fY4jQAoAAACy54n1JaixCQ7FZ0Z8tkbc Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.171.169.190 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 23:20:11 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216292 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108582 Archived-At: On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 5:22:47 PM UTC-8, Charles Millar wrote: > On 12/30/2015 07:16 PM, smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote: > >> Put your .emacs in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming > >> > >> if you happen to be Administator, otherwise substitute your User-name > >> for Administrator. This is where Emacs thinks your home directory is. > >> > >> Ed > > Ed, I'm running in Windows 7. when I evaluate (getenv "home"), it gives me "z:/" That is my root/home, so would not my .emacs be expected to be there? I currently have it there. > > Thanks, Gerard > > > What does C-h v user-init-file show? According to the documentation that > should return the file name, including directory, of user's > initialization file. it shows exactly where I have my .emacs file: user-init-file is a variable defined in `C source code'. Its value is "z:/.emacs"