From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Error Dismissing Startup Screen Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:42:37 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <21839889.post@talk.nabble.com> <7EDC3684-BC58-4E9D-98A1-C541280A1905@Web.DE> <21860253.post@talk.nabble.com> <832FFA34-B7F1-4FCE-8F1F-DFC129014978@Web.DE> <21864014.post@talk.nabble.com> <7F9D7828-019A-4C13-B34C-60C9F7AD6A53@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233981635 13664 80.91.229.12 (7 Feb 2009 04:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 04:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 07 05:41:50 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 1LVf0o-0005ez-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:41:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVezU-0000mQ-Ea for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+dLN1rksSo/jTTihu46bKsvP4hXPaVkZUxM4dpu/qlWDkfz5P7b/zbvTY9X3O6KHXpostDfML8CtcKxtXWxb66LaqOlJczqg33Vmdp+hZHBvUbowNO1orgU2UJpOo7sts= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 03:42:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19Psf0y3grEIWpyPEugiBspmXMc38xNl1Q= Cancel-Lock: sha1:7CLOumED0+bbcNp8MN0FTqEXrWw= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166658 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61969 Archived-At: In article , eabod 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***