From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs file missing!? Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87y8hpxyaz.fsf@penguin.brutt.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099068736 28903 80.91.229.6 (29 Oct 2004 16:52:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:52:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 29 18:52:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CNZz2-0003AS-00 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:52:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNa6t-0001ns-GD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:00:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de l6EZvjL/6HxZgrB7df4gcQYUhfj8XZTBNG3zvybf793+34IpM= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JDAiB+3FtTiyuF3nvKcxIBUZprc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126213 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21594 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21594 "JS" writes: > I have just made one by chosing "Open File" and then I typed .emacs! Was that > it? You should have typed C-x C-f ~/.emacs...that would be guaranteed to work. -- Benjamin Rutt