From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Kranec Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: running emacs on a usb disk Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:45:34 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040829194554.54047C15193@frontend1.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093808789 25144 80.91.224.253 (29 Aug 2004 19:46:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 21:46:22 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C1Vd8-0006jC-00 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:46:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1Vhu-0006Fq-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1Vhk-0006Dx-Qd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1Vhk-0006DJ-6X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1Vhk-0006DG-2U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.30] (helo=frontend1.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1Vch-0006YF-IA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:45:55 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: AOcIxFWc6C0jTd44T23i8w 1093808754 Original-Received: from Laptop (68-232-111-121.chvlva.adelphia.net [68.232.111.121]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54047C15193 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: INLINE X-Mailer: Mahogany 0.66.0 'Clio', running under Windows NT 5.1 (build 2600, Service Pack 1) 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20360 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20360 Hello, I am a kind of new emacs user, and I have been experimenting with trying to run emacs standalone from a USB flash drive on Windows XP. Is it possible to make emacs load my .emacs file from a relative path on the USB disk, rather than looking in Windows' PATH or registry settings? Right now emacs looks for everything in C:\. I have tried reading through the user manual and some online resources, but I didn't see anything that I thought directly applied to this. Thanks for any help you can give, I really appreciate it. Bill