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From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:28:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <864pn3oaqh.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 462FC576.3020505@gmail.com

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Chris McMahan wrote:
>> Is it possible to set your home directory to the thumbdrive so emacs
>> will look there for the init file?
>
> I am not quite sure, but it looks to me from the docs that you can do
> this on MS Windows (but not other systems) by setting the
> environmental variable HOME.

Setting $HOME works on Unix, too.

Kai

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-26  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-25  4:17 .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25  9:27 ` Peter Tury
2007-04-25 10:33   ` Ismael Valladolid Torres
2007-04-25 11:03     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2502.1177499413.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-25 19:35       ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25 20:16         ` Chris McMahan
2007-04-25 21:17           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-26  7:28             ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2007-04-25 21:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2529.1177535710.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-26  7:22           ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-26 11:25             ` Peter Tury
2007-05-03 19:22               ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25 14:35 ` Kai Grossjohann

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