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
next prev parent 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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