Re: emacs-home variable for Windows

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:00 AM, ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
>> I carry a USB stick to the job.  It's got emacs installed on it and
>> there's a link on my desktop that I click (after inserting the stick)
>> and emacs fires up.  It's nice.  I use it every day.  With the paucity
>> of decent editors from Windows, I *need* it.
>>
>> There's a couple minor hassles though that I'd like to dispense with.
>> One is that I don't know a way to tell emacs what the HOME directory is.
>>  In the past I've just gone into the registry and change some variable
>> there.  I don't remember where that is or how to do it though.  Besides,
>> I prefer to have the variable defined in my .emacs (which is at the
>> top-level directory on the USB stick).  (After emacs loads, I do "M-x
>> loadfile RETURN e:/.emacs" and that little task loads up the rest of the
>> stuff emacs needs to know.  But I don't know how tell emacs to make e:/
>> the home directory.
> 
> 
> There is a library usb-setup.el in Emacs+EmacsW32 for this.
> 
> 


Can this .el file be downloaded separately from EmacsW32 to use with the
standard Emacs w32 build? Is it somewhere in nXhtml 1.97 or has it been
removed?

Thanks,

Ed