From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3?
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:08:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sizd15e5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864nbtuq2t.fsf@hotmail.com>
> From: Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:08:26 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:46 -0400 (EDT)
> >> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
> >> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >>
> >> A read through of the emacs-windows.faq file states that HOME works, but
> >> windows 7 at least isn't set up for emacs to find its .emacs file and some
> >> registry key editing is needed.
> >
> > That's not true. Just start Emacs, type "C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET" and
> > you will see that Emacs finds HOME very well on Windows 7. Unless you
> > are using a very old version of Emacs (the latest is 24.3).
>
> I assume you are not talking about the environment variable?
Yes, I am.
> When I get a new Windows machine I always immediately set HOME in the
> environment to
>
> c:/Users/<usersname>
>
> so the .emacs file is read from a non-weird place.
You don't have to. Emacs does that by default (on Windows 7).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-17 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-14 1:54 How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3? sebastianeappen
2013-07-14 2:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-14 2:09 ` sebastianeappen
2013-07-15 0:59 ` Ken Goldman
2013-07-15 3:37 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-07-15 4:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1065.1373863439.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-17 16:08 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-07-17 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-07-20 22:03 ` Ken Goldman
[not found] ` <mailman.1492.1374357816.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-21 8:45 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-07-21 13:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1507.1374412093.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-21 14:59 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-07-21 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-22 4:04 ` Yuri Khan
2013-07-15 3:00 ` Alan
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