* solution: Vista/writing to C: not allowed
@ 2007-04-03 3:35 tom t/LA
2007-04-03 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: tom t/LA @ 2007-04-03 3:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
under Windows Vista writing to the C:/ directory is restricted, and
Emacs 21.3.1 got errors trying to save .emacs-places and .emacs.
A solution to this is to define an environment variable HOME with the
value /users/MYNAME. Then emacs looks in this directory
for .emacs, .emacs-places, etc.
to define an environment variable go to System Control Panel, Advanced
System Settings.
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* Re: solution: Vista/writing to C: not allowed
2007-04-03 3:35 solution: Vista/writing to C: not allowed tom t/LA
@ 2007-04-03 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2007-04-03 8:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: "tom t/LA" <ttulinsky@gmail.com>
> Date: 2 Apr 2007 20:35:12 -0700
>
> under Windows Vista writing to the C:/ directory is restricted, and
> Emacs 21.3.1 got errors trying to save .emacs-places and .emacs.
Thanks. The upcoming Emacs 22.1 will use the user's private
"Application Data" directory, if HOME is not set in the environment.
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