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 23:17:42 +0200 Message-ID: <462FC576.3020505@gmail.com> References: <462ed65d$0$79139$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <20070425103306.GD18340@punkass.com> <462fad69$0$322$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> 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 1177535889 5918 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2007 21:18:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 25 23:18:03 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 1HgosD-0000BZ-Vi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:18:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgoxs-0002Ie-O3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgoxe-0002IY-ON for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:23:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgoxc-0002Hp-Qw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgoxc-0002Hm-NB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:23:36 -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 1Hgorx-0001ns-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:17:45 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:60585 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hgoru-0002ZQ-62 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:17:43 +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: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000736-0, 2007-04-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Hgoru-0002ZQ-62. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1Hgoru-0002ZQ-62 17f97a900635ea49407406aedf0830ff 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:43195 Archived-At: 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.