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From: Anthony G <goggs@bur.st>
Subject: $HOME var
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:13:14 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307101314.GA1569@bur.st> (raw)

Hello,

I have a minor problem with Emacs for windows. Emacs works great on my Linux system at home, but at College where I spend a considerable amount of time coding, I have to use windows 2000.
The problem is as follows; Windows environment variables are set & locked on login. I can't add or change them, and command.exe is locked out. $HOME, for some FUBAR reason, is set to C:\, yet I don't have write permission FOR C:\. This means when I'm halfway through editing a file, emacs tries to save '.emacs.d' (or similar) to C: every microsecond. It doesn't hang, but It's so occupied in saving the file, that I need to enter commands quickly. I can't disable it in .emacs, because I can't save anything to $HOME (C:\), including .emacs.
Can I change $HOME in the emacs lisp files, or even an argument?

I'm an *ex* vim user, and enjoy learning emacs, but not being able to use emacs instead of the lame IDE that comes with the College's Java package, is a problem that needs to be resolved.


Thanks,

/Tony

             reply	other threads:[~2003-03-07 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-07 10:13 Anthony G [this message]
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2003-03-07 10:49 $HOME var Victor Kirk
     [not found] <mailman.2931.1047032076.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-03-07 11:21 ` Torsten Müller
2003-03-07 18:48   ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-03-07 18:51 ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-03-07 21:38 ` Chris McMahan
2003-03-08  9:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.2983.1047115759.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-03-10 19:07   ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-03-11  4:31     ` Eli Zaretskii

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