From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't get Xemacs to find init.el on XP Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:53:01 +0200 Message-ID: <460AAB7D.9020801@gmail.com> References: <1175101735.157814.291330@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175104414 17541 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2007 17:53:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: landspeedrecord Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 28 19:53:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HWcKr-00076l-VR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:53:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWcNM-0004J4-3W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:56:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWcN1-0004GW-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWcN0-0004FZ-Fu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWcN0-0004FR-4A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HWcKV-0001NS-4n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:61105 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HWcKQ-0004yQ-5x; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:53:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <1175101735.157814.291330@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000728-2, 2007-03-28), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HWcKQ-0004yQ-5x. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HWcKQ-0004yQ-5x ae66fc4245b44fdc0fa102b5fc12da59 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42247 Archived-At: landspeedrecord wrote: > Hi, > > I can't get Xemacs to load in it's initialization file (init.el) on my > windows XP PC. > > I read the tutorial and put the init.el file at the root of my C drive > in a folder called .xemacs. Then I tried adding C:\.xemacs to the > PATH user AND system environment variables via the control panel/ > system/advanced tab etc. Still no luck. > > Then I just tried putting the init.el file all over the place in any > relevant folder hoping xemacs would load it. That didn't work > either. > > Any ideas? I have honestly tried reading the faqs and searching > google and got nowhere which is why I am asking here. > > Thanks for any help! I am not familiar with Xemacs. This list is for GNU Emacs. You may want to try GNU Emacs instead, for binaries see here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryWThirtyTwo The initialization file is then called .emacs. To find where Emacs think it is located just open it inside Emacs: C-x C-f ~/.emacs