From: "B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com>
Subject: Re: warning 'User has no home directory' with version 22.0.50 on msw2000
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:37:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9acd$44b6770b$49ede86$31759@DIALUPUSA.NET> (raw)
I wanted emacs to live in c:\emacs rather than being buried deeply in the
Documents and Settings subdir. I moved everything to c:\emacs but I get
the above error (or something to that effect, it's not verbatim). I have
Administrator rights on the machine so I tried setting the home dir for
Admin, Guest, and User1 all to c:\emacs and also put SET HOME=C:\EMACS in
the autoexec.bat, all to no avail.
On the web there are instructions for putting emacs+auctex onto a thumb
drive, including this code (to go into site-start.el):
(defvar usb-drive-letter (substring data-directory 0 3))
(defvar usb-home-dir (concat usb-drive-letter "home/"))
(setenv "HOME" usb-home-dir)
Do I have to do something like that to get emacs to work in an arbitrary
subdirectory in msw2000? I don't really understand the above. Does emacs
interpret site-start.el before .emacs itself?
Thanks,
Ed
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next reply other threads:[~2006-07-13 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-13 16:37 B. T. Raven [this message]
2006-07-13 18:55 ` warning 'User has no home directory' with version 22.0.50 on msw2000 Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4065.1152816964.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-07-13 19:10 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-13 22:58 ` B. T. Raven
2006-07-14 11:40 ` B. T. Raven
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