From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Quin Wills Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:45:41 +0100 Message-ID: <46DB2F05.2010305@gmail.com> References: <46DAE38C.2050602@gmail.com> <46DB1D6A.8090104@gmail.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 1188769574 19207 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2007 21:46:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:46:14 +0000 (UTC) To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 02 23:46:11 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 1IRxGk-00056k-QP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:46:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IRxGj-0006wa-Ds for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:46:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IRxGV-0006wG-Ku for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IRxGR-0006vi-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IRxGR-0006vf-MY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:45:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.184]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRxGR-0006va-Aj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:45:51 -0400 Original-Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 19so1537473fkr for ; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:45:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=oYMbMJX7vY6z+X9KjGvyKqZsFKxkWhnM5y3KbH7ygqrbBL0PF+wKL9hfZxlWHH/noqbu5zMsm4O9TqzUBsWfJCcdZnwy9IMhQtZjiOfl5RYdr05yc39nD4QjHIZNrBaomQcO1HV6/nRL2uOOmeib5KNWA2hNAFURu5yc8wlQ9L0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=XYoDUCjOu1pxEm3tkYPMKddjip8jiKVBwPUXT9NBBRWTq2jBHYYDVg4/S33epva4OTPWJ5B8FG5MxpmX32iXk+i/7W8PrMe+e1GDiyYfJKTt4nQJm03T+kpcET5uadIct1iweNFJf4d0yglhZ/xhgrA71YcJKE7m8Iav0F8Ofuo= Original-Received: by 10.82.165.13 with SMTP id n13mr9369991bue.1188769549970; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.1.2? ( [82.10.103.76]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q1sm4335326uge.2007.09.02.14.45.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:45:46 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <46DB1D6A.8090104@gmail.com> X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:47121 Archived-At: Thanks, but I'm still stuck. I'm assuming you mean that I should then be creating my own .emacs file. I've done the following. I've created the following "~/.emacs", saying the following: load "C:/Program Files/Emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.3.5/lisp/ess-site" And using: control panel > system > advanced > environment variables added "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.1" to both "user variables for Quin" and "system variables" to point the way to R, as I understand from: http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Microsoft-Windows-installation And nothing. Oi. Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > Quin Wills wrote: >> I've been using Emacs and XEmacs on and off for a few years now - >> mostly to run R (with ESS) and LaTeX - on both Windows XP and Ubuntu. >> >> I installed the latest emacsW32 onto my Windows XP machine and am >> confused. I need to edit my .emacs file to allow ESS to run but can't >> find my .emacs file (yes, I can see hidden files and have searched >> for _emacs too). In emacs when I search the HOME directory it takes >> me to "C:\Documents and Settings\Quin\Application Data" which has a >> ".emacs.d" directory but no sight of my init file. Previously my >> .emacs file was just in "C:\" >> >> Had a look about for help and in the FAQs but am not spotting >> anything useful. Where is my .emacs file? Yikes, sorry to be so dumb. >> Thanks in advance. > > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryDotEmacs > -- * * * * *Quin Wills* I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable - Jim Morrison * * *Brasenose** College*** *Oxford*** *OX1 4AJ* *07951 335 714*