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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Location of .emacs in Windows 7
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:02:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uh2qi4g.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m9cauv$3rp$1@speranza.aioe.org

Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> writes:

> Using C-x C-f I can read in, edit and store .emacs in ~/.emacs .
> However, when I search for the file, I cannot find it.

There is a well-defined rule for what Emacs considers `home' (see the
"Windows HOME" node on the Emacs documentation.)

But if you just want a simple method for controlling what `~' means for
Emacs, just define a HOME environment variable (on the Control Panel)
containing the directory you wish to be `~' (said directory must exist
before running Emacs.) At startup, Emacs will read that environment
variable and interpret `~' as a shortcut to the directory it mentions.

OTOH, if you wish to know what `~' expands *now* to in Emacs, just visit
that directory with `C-x d ~ [ENTER]' and you will see on the top part
of the resulting buffer the complete path to `~', along with its
contents.

[snip]




  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-17  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-17  0:38 Location of .emacs in Windows 7 Steve Graham
2015-01-17  2:02 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2015-01-17  2:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-18 16:33 ` Jordan Wilson
2015-01-18 16:41   ` Eli Zaretskii

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