.emacs file in windows XP

.emacs file in windows XP

[Senthil]

i have emacs21.3 installed in my windowsXP system.
i obtained the tar ball and just unzipped it to install emacs.
My .emacs file contains some minimal settings like
changing the background colour, foreground color etc.
But emacs doesnot load with those options and does not
report any error also .what should i do for emacs to load
with the options specified in .emacs

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--------S.Senthil Kumaran-------
blog : http://sskganesan.blogspot.com

RE: .emacs file in windows XP

[Herbert Euler]

>From: Senthil <sens2003@gmail.com>
>To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>Subject: .emacs file in windows XP
>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:26:22 +0530
>
>what should i do for emacs to load
>with the options specified in .emacs

You should set the HOME environment for your
Windows logging in user. This environment will
point to a directory contains your .emacs file.

      Regards,
      Herbert

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Re: .emacs file in windows XP

[Kevin Rodgers]

Herbert Euler wrote:
>> From: Senthil <sens2003@gmail.com>
>> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Subject: .emacs file in windows XP
>> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:26:22 +0530
>>
>> what should i do for emacs to load
>> with the options specified in .emacs
> 
> 
> You should set the HOME environment for your
> Windows logging in user. This environment will
> point to a directory contains your .emacs file.

One can find out where Emacs is looking for that file with:
M-: (expand-file-name "~/.emacs")

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

RE: .emacs file in windows XP

[Rancier, Jeff]

What's the value of your %HOME% environmental variable, that's where you
.emacs file should live.

Thanks,
-jbr
 

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| To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
| Subject: .emacs file in windows XP
| 
| 
| i have emacs21.3 installed in my windowsXP system.
| i obtained the tar ball and just unzipped it to install emacs.
| My .emacs file contains some minimal settings like
| changing the background colour, foreground color etc.
| But emacs doesnot load with those options and does not
| report any error also .what should i do for emacs to load
| with the options specified in .emacs
| 
| --
| --------S.Senthil Kumaran-------
| blog : http://sskganesan.blogspot.com
| 
| 
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Re: .emacs file in windows XP

[Herbert Euler]

>From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
>To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: .emacs file in windows XP
>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:32:52 -0700
>
>One can find out where Emacs is looking for that file with:
>M-: (expand-file-name "~/.emacs")

So one can also find out which directory is home by typing
C-x d ~ RET, and the first line will show the whole name.

        Herbert

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Re: .emacs file in windows XP

[Kevin Rodgers]

Herbert Euler wrote:
>> From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
>> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: .emacs file in windows XP
>> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:32:52 -0700
>>
>> One can find out where Emacs is looking for that file with:
>> M-: (expand-file-name "~/.emacs") 
> 
> So one can also find out which directory is home by typing
> C-x d ~ RET, and the first line will show the whole name.

Here's another way to do that:
M-: (file-truename (expand-file-name "~"))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: .emacs file in windows XP

[Andrew Baine]

Or you could

Re: .emacs file in windows XP

[Senthil]

thanks for that .I got that after setting up the HOME environment
variable and copying .emacs to the path specified

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