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From: Paulo da Costa <pmcc411-usenet@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: I need an Emacs-file..
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 06:46:15 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XWaTe.491$zq6.460@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.6006.1125982620.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: Brett Kelly <inkedmn@gmail.com>
>>on windows, i believe the file is called _emacs, not .emacs (at least, this
>>is the case on my windows xp machine)
> 
> No, it's called .emacs, but Emacs on Windows will use _emacs if .emacs
> can not be found.

True. You can change the name to .emacs using Emacs itself (edit _emacs
and save as .emacs). Windows Explorer doesn't like the name .emacs, but
you don't have to use it to rename the file.

Paulo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-04 17:51 I need an Emacs-file Søren Sander
2005-09-04 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-06  1:53   ` Brett Kelly
2005-09-06  4:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6006.1125982620.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-06  6:46       ` Paulo da Costa [this message]
2005-09-06 14:30   ` Drew Adams

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