.emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?)

.emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?)

[Quin Wills]

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.


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Re: .emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?)

[Eric Hanchrow]

>>>>> "Quin" == Quin Wills <quin.wills@googlemail.com> writes:
    Quin> Had a look about for help and in the FAQs but am not
    Quin> spotting anything useful.  Where is my .emacs file?  Yikes,
    Quin> sorry to be so dumb.  Thanks in advance.

I think the default location has changed in Emacs 22.

Read (info "(emacs)Windows HOME"); the executive summary is: type C-x
C-f ~/.emacs RET, and that will show you the location that Emacs
expects.  If that file doesn't exist, populate it.

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Re: .emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.09.2007 um 18:23 schrieb Quin Wills:

> Where is my .emacs file?

You can use or set the variable user-emacs-file to make GNU Emacs  
find it.

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Re: .emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?)

[Quin Wills]

Thanks, but I'm still stuck.

I'm assuming you mean that I should then be creating my own .emacs file. 
I've done the following. I've created the following "~/.emacs", saying 
the following:

load "C:/Program Files/Emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.3.5/lisp/ess-site"

And using:  control panel > system > advanced > environment variables

added "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.1" to both "user variables for Quin" and 
"system variables" to point the way to R, as I understand from:

http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Microsoft-Windows-installation

And nothing. Oi.




Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Quin Wills wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryDotEmacs
>


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Re: .emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:45:41 +0100
> From: Quin Wills <quin.wills@googlemail.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> I'm assuming you mean that I should then be creating my own .emacs file. 
> I've done the following. I've created the following "~/.emacs", saying 
> the following:
> 
> load "C:/Program Files/Emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.3.5/lisp/ess-site"

Is this in your .emacs file?  If so, it should be

 (load "C:/Program Files/Emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.3.5/lisp/ess-site")

in parenthesis.  And you should restart Emacs after that.

> And using:  control panel > system > advanced > environment variables
> 
> added "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.1" to both "user variables for Quin" and 
> "system variables" to point the way to R

It's enough to add this only to either "user variables for Quin" or to
"system variables".  I assume that you added this to the value of
Path, right?

And you need to restart Emacs after the change to environment
variables as well.

> And nothing. Oi.

Well, nothing will happen unless you invoke R.  How did you do that,
after making all those changes?

Re: .emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?)

[David Kastrup]

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


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