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From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:29:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184153377.121400.324780@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cL6dnacE-KpYywnbnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@comcast.com>

On 11 Jul, 05:04, Murray Eisenberg <mur...@math.umass.edu> wrote:

> Originally, the file was named .emacs and placed inside my home
> directory.  But then I realized that savehist wants to save the history
> to a subdirectory .emacs of my home directory

That sounds like a very serious bug in savehist. .emacs is the
standard name for the init file, it should not be trying to create a
subdirectory of that name!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-11 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-11  4:04 Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-11  8:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-07-11 11:29 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2007-07-11 11:34   ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-11 14:10   ` Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-11 14:58     ` Vagn Johansen
2007-07-11 15:31     ` Peter Dyballa
2007-07-11 15:50       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found] ` <mailman.3317.1184144075.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-11 14:08   ` Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-11 15:24     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3344.1184167477.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-11 16:25       ` Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-11 17:16         ` Peter Dyballa
2007-07-11 18:48     ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.3365.1184179766.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-12 16:52 ` Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-12 17:05   ` Peter Dyballa
2007-07-12 17:09   ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.3405.1184260312.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-12 22:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-12 23:21   ` Drew Adams

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