From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't find .emacs file on Cygwin Emacs Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:40:44 +0000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87llp9n9kj.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <70hdzxannv.fsf@apokrif.xyz> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071780507 32423 80.91.224.253 (18 Dec 2003 20:48:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:48:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 21:48:24 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AX54K-0002nk-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:48:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AX5xz-0003zE-Qr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:45:55 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de (213.203.244.156) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071780056 7688451 213.203.244.156 ([73968] 10430) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u4Eh16Y/n+59Ed9oSjluN/ddlUw= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119496 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15435 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15435 Apokrif writes: > I've got an Emacs for Windows 98 which uses C:\_emacs ("_", not "."). Emacs for Windows reads ~/.emacs if present, else it looks for ~/_emacs. Whoever uses Emacs on a non-DOS system should try C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET (with tilde and a forward slash). The file you're then looking at is your .emacs file -- maybe it is new, and thus empty. The DOSish eight-dot-three convention does not allow .emacs as a file name. AFAIK, DOS is the only system where .emacs is not called .emacs. Kai