From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs-home variable for Windows Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:50:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4AD514B1.5080503@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255498968 916 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2009 05:42:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:42:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 07:42:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MxwdB-0007qH-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:42:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxwdB-0001Cs-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:42:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:50:48 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: X-No-Archive: yes Original-Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.132.53 Original-X-Trace: sv3-Ox335WhOx+b/VHS96gI9PH7Xbgo+Pq1FslHn7cp9PkhM8Ch8GN1m0NmX7lqBjydeJmwa/1yOTrK0rxP!BjxGpBNShOo12KyuGSq0BOEplAeWRz0rNP0XHO8zmd+yho0mlIF3UDqcbWBcKR5mCKS4t3Z1Cpu7!X+3E9PS1BCc5D6Jzenv4UCGaM76DcQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173859 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Gmane-Expiry: 2009-10-28 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68939 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:00 AM, ken 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