From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for winXP (where to put the .emacs file)? Date: 18 Oct 2005 14:44:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1129671857.005430.299780@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129671932 17527 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2005 21:45:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:45:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 23:45:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERzGs-0005xD-Ex for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:45:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERzGr-0005UR-QF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:45:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.74.20.73 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1129671862 4867 127.0.0.1 (18 Oct 2005 21:44:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:44:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=198.74.20.73; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134770 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30352 Archived-At: > I have just installed emacs for winXP. But where do I put my .emacs file? Do > I need to add something in my path first? If you set a HOME environment variable it's value defines where your .emacs goes. If you're satisfied with whereever the default might land you can just use ~\.emacs and Emacs will handle the rest. Although you can set environment variables at the system level from [My Computer][Properties][Advanced][Environment Variables] You can also create .bat files that contain different values for HOME which you might use for different purposes. set home=H:\EmacsStuff Causes Emacs to look for h:\EmacsStuff\.emacs Or you could do it this way to avoid the need to actually change the .bat file. set home=%~dp0