From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Millar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:22:13 -0500 Message-ID: <56848345.9000109@verizon.net> References: <3172bfe2-d1b5-43d8-8b61-0820768d6e4a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451524982 3719 80.91.229.3 (31 Dec 2015 01:23:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:23:02 +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 31 02:22:54 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aERx7-0008M9-CA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:22:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54309 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aERx6-0007dw-NF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:22:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aERww-0007dq-91 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aERws-00028h-9m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:22:42 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173025pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.25]:38722) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aERws-00028G-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:22:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.128] ([70.209.141.9]) by vms173025.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0O0700MA47T1YVJ0@vms173025.mailsrvcs.net> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:22:15 -0600 (CST) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=J+9Xl1TS c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=rPJcLxLfhEDawzGRnL969g==:117 a=o1OHuDzbAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=wUQvQvOEmiQA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=0cni35lXiG-wPuewjuQA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.46.173.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108538 Archived-At: On 12/30/2015 07:16 PM, smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote: >> Put your .emacs in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming >> >> if you happen to be Administator, otherwise substitute your User-name >> for Administrator. This is where Emacs thinks your home directory is. >> >> Ed > Ed, I'm running in Windows 7. when I evaluate (getenv "home"), it gives me "z:/" That is my root/home, so would not my .emacs be expected to be there? I currently have it there. > Thanks, Gerard > What does C-h v user-init-file show? According to the documentation that should return the file name, including directory, of user's initialization file.