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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?)
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:41:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <851wdgpzq6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.183.1188764176.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Quin Wills <quin.wills@googlemail.com> writes:

> 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.

You have to create it.  Try
C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET


-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

       reply	other threads:[~2007-09-02 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.183.1188764176.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-02 20:41 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-09-02 16:23 .emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?) Quin Wills
2007-09-02 20:35 ` Eric Hanchrow
2007-09-02 20:46 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <46DB1D6A.8090104@gmail.com>
2007-09-02 21:45   ` Quin Wills
2007-09-03  3:06     ` Eli Zaretskii

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