Re: warning 'User has no home directory' with version 22.0.50 on msw2000

Re: warning 'User has no home directory' with version 22.0.50 on msw2000

[B. T. Raven]

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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Re: warning 'User has no home directory' with version 22.0.50 on msw2000

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:37:19 -0500
> 
> 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).

When was your Emacs binary built?  ("M-x emacs-version RET" should
show that.)  There was a problem like that in CVS, but it was fixed on
May 19.  If your binary is older, you will have to wait for AUC TeX to
provide a newer build.

Re: warning 'User has no home directory' with version 22.0.50 on msw2000

[Ralf Angeli]

* Eli Zaretskii (2006-07-13) writes:

> When was your Emacs binary built?  ("M-x emacs-version RET" should
> show that.)  There was a problem like that in CVS, but it was fixed on
> May 19.  If your binary is older, you will have to wait for AUC TeX to
> provide a newer build.

The latest Emacs/AUCTeX bundle available from alpha.gnu.org is from
2006-06-24.

-- 
Ralf

Re: warning 'User has no home directory' with version 22.0.50 on msw2000

[B. T. Raven]

"Ralf Angeli" <dev.null@caeruleus.net> wrote in message
news:44b69a96$0$15791$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
> * Eli Zaretskii (2006-07-13) writes:
>
> > When was your Emacs binary built?  ("M-x emacs-version RET" should
> > show that.)  There was a problem like that in CVS, but it was fixed on
> > May 19.  If your binary is older, you will have to wait for AUC TeX to
> > provide a newer build.
>
> The latest Emacs/AUCTeX bundle available from alpha.gnu.org is from
> 2006-06-24.
>
> --
> Ralf

Thanks, Eli and Ralf. Does "bundle" mean the w32 emacs+auctex zipped
binaries (about 38-39 Meg)? If so, I can't find it anywhere on the web
now.

Ed

Re: warning 'User has no home directory' with version 22.0.50 on msw2000

[B. T. Raven]

"B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com> wrote in message
news:b6ffe$44b6d084$49ede8d$1661@DIALUPUSA.NET...
>
> "Ralf Angeli" <dev.null@caeruleus.net> wrote in message
> news:44b69a96$0$15791$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
> > * Eli Zaretskii (2006-07-13) writes:
> >
> > > When was your Emacs binary built?  ("M-x emacs-version RET" should
> > > show that.)  There was a problem like that in CVS, but it was fixed
on
> > > May 19.  If your binary is older, you will have to wait for AUC TeX
to
> > > provide a newer build.
> >
> > The latest Emacs/AUCTeX bundle available from alpha.gnu.org is from
> > 2006-06-24.
> >
> > --
> > Ralf
>
> Thanks, Eli and Ralf. Does "bundle" mean the w32 emacs+auctex zipped
> binaries (about 38-39 Meg)? If so, I can't find it anywhere on the web
> now.

at the site:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/emacs+auctex-w32-2006-05-14.zip

I get "page cannot be displayed." If I trim the url back to ...gnu.org and
then navigate, it works fine. ??

Ed