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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:17:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <462FC576.3020505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uzm4w8b20.fsf@one.dot.net>

Chris McMahan wrote:
> Is it possible to set your home directory to the thumbdrive so emacs
> will look there for the init file?

I am not quite sure, but it looks to me from the docs that you can do 
this on MS Windows (but not other systems) by setting the environmental 
variable HOME.

Be aware though that other programs may use HOME too.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-25 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-25  4:17 .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25  9:27 ` Peter Tury
2007-04-25 10:33   ` Ismael Valladolid Torres
2007-04-25 11:03     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2502.1177499413.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-25 19:35       ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25 20:16         ` Chris McMahan
2007-04-25 21:17           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-04-26  7:28             ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-04-25 21:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2529.1177535710.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-26  7:22           ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-26 11:25             ` Peter Tury
2007-05-03 19:22               ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25 14:35 ` Kai Grossjohann

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