From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Colin S. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Where is config? Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:30:41 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <461aa272$0$90274$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <1176109753.125572.258870@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <87y7l1mxzk.fsf@gmail.com> <1176131130.622555.200520@q75g2000hsh.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 1176151395 5897 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2007 20:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:43:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 22:42:23 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 1Hb0cz-0001Bq-2p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:38:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hb0gp-00053T-SX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:42:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <1176131130.622555.200520@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.98.112 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=RhJd:K]Wgm>CYcV_=RH 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:42534 Archived-At: Grigory Temchenko wrote: > On Apr 9, 6:19 pm, Hadron wrote: > >> I'm confused. What has the above got do with what he was asking for >> which is ~/.emacs isn't it? > > I might not know what is ~/ I should know what is My Computer icon. > > P.S. %-) > Grigory, ~/ is your home directory on Unix-type OSes. Unix uses / as the directory separator, MS-Windows uses \ ~/ is equivalent to c:\Documents and Settings\ on MS-Windows. To set the home environmental variable select (from memory, might not be exactly correct), select Start/Settings/Control Panel System entry Advanced tab Environmental Variables button You should have two lists of variables, the top is for yourself, and the bottom for other users of your machine. Select "Add new variable" for the top list, enter "HOME" for the name, and "c:\Documents and Settings\Grigory\Application Data" for the value, assuming you log into MS-Windows as "Grigory" You can open "~\.emacs.el" in emacs; emacs will expand ~\ to the correct directory. BTW, are you running MS-Windows Vista? IIRC, it causes some issues with Emacs, there should be more information on the wiki, or you can search the web/this usenet group. HTH, Colin S. Miller -- Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the hostname to reply.