From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: where is .emacs configuration file Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:23:20 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <4ca6190e$0$50445$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <5a519b04-e61e-4de5-9872-0bf51e77dba1@k10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291885234 5368 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 09:00:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:00:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 10:00:31 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQcMX-0008Rf-35 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:00:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQcMW-0007dX-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:00:28 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.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: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs In-Reply-To: <5a519b04-e61e-4de5-9872-0bf51e77dba1@k10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.188.194.56 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=MRO8iI@BD7PPJU4WZUlGaXYSB=nbEKnk[G^4N7DK[:W; BVUdS?DZIH?UQ6E]45i7E1PQI8h?5d1H:HU2^F_0aNJO>YDeRiYF05hUV Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181599 comp.emacs:100530 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:76896 Archived-At: ccc31807 wrote: > Hello, > > Brand new to emacs, but a long gime vi user. Just installed > GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1 > Using Windows XP, SP3. > > Two questions: > (1) Where is the emacs configuration file? I have several, and suspect > that it at C:\Documents and Settings\username\.emacs, but the changes > I have made in that particular file don't seem to affect the behavior > of the emacs program. See FAQ 3.5 here: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/Installing-Emacs.html#Installing-Emacs > (2) What simple change can I make in the configuration file as a test > to see if the changes take effect? I tried (print "Hello") but that > doesn't result in any message when I start emacs. Put (setq user "... your name here... ") in your .emacs. After starting Emacs, go to *scratch* buffer, and type user^j. Cheers, Uday