From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:28:38 +0200 Message-ID: <864pn3oaqh.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <462ed65d$0$79139$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <20070425103306.GD18340@punkass.com> <462fad69$0$322$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <462FC576.3020505@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177572570 4586 80.91.229.12 (26 Apr 2007 07:29:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:29:30 +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 Apr 26 09:29:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HgyPs-0003LE-UA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:29:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgyVa-0005CK-IG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgyV9-00055l-Hb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgyV7-00055M-83 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgyV6-00055G-UT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgyPO-0002R9-C3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HgyPI-0006Wx-LZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:28:48 +0200 Original-Received: from de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net ([62.191.185.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:28:48 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:28:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PFjH0Ap4MFqgcBbUfkRNiAJBaZM= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43206 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" 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