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: .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:03:55 +0200 Message-ID: <462F359B.30306@gmail.com> References: <462ed65d$0$79139$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <20070425103306.GD18340@punkass.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 1177499079 11836 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2007 11:04:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ismael Valladolid Torres Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 25 13:04:36 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 1HgfIa-0006of-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:04:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgfOC-0005Fo-3E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:10:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgfNz-0005Fe-87 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgfNx-0005FG-9i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgfNx-0005FD-4x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:10:09 -0400 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 1HgfIK-0000qc-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:04:20 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:59479 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HgfII-0006Rd-4K; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:04:19 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <20070425103306.GD18340@punkass.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000735-2, 2007-04-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HgfII-0006Rd-4K. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HgfII-0006Rd-4K c68ddabb6540029f80641655a67ff8b5 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:43168 Archived-At: Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Peter Tury escribe: >> you should have a "home" env.variable in MS >> Windows and put your .emacs there. > > I you don't have it Emacs will look for a C:\_emacs or a C:\.emacs. The now hopefully soon released Emacs 22 it is more well behaved and looks in the users Application Data directory if HOME is not set.