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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Error Dismissing Startup Screen
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:42:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-388E29.22423706022009@mara100-84.onlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.51.1233950246.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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In article <mailman.51.1233950246.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 eabod <quinnculver@gmail.com> wrote:

> I actually had a .emacs file in my Home directory all along. So now what
> could the problem be?

Maybe there's a permissions problem?

> 
> 
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Am 06.02.2009 um 01:00 schrieb eabod:
> > 
> >> How do I create the needed init file and in which dirctory does it  
> >> belong?
> > 
> > 
> > The info documentation on GNU Emacs describes this. On an UNIX system  
> > 'touch ~/.emacs' would create an empty possible init file.
> > 
> > --
> > Greetings
> > 
> >    Pete
> > 
> > Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one  
> > that corrupts your file?
> > 				– Dan Jacobson, on comp.os.linux.advocacy
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-07  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04 21:21 Error Dismissing Startup Screen eabod
2009-02-05  9:17 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-02-05 20:19   ` eabod
2009-02-05 22:23     ` Peter Dyballa
2009-02-06  0:00       ` eabod
2009-02-06  1:23         ` Joe Schafer
2009-02-06  9:31         ` Peter Dyballa
2009-02-06 19:57           ` eabod
     [not found]           ` <mailman.51.1233950246.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-07  3:42             ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2009-02-07 22:35             ` Glenn Morris
     [not found]       ` <mailman.90.1233878453.17492.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-06  0:39         ` Mike Treseler
     [not found]     ` <mailman.88.1233872622.17492.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-06  1:20       ` Glenn Morris

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