From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: patrol Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Please help with location of .emacs file and .emacs.d folder location Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:56:09 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257931876 11815 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2009 09:31:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:31:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 10:31:08 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 1N89Vh-0002TO-Qq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:29:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N89Vh-0002xU-7U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:29:05 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p28g2000vbi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.234.223.48 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1257782169 29330 127.0.0.1 (9 Nov 2009 15:56:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:56:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p28g2000vbi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=99.234.223.48; posting-account=tRtJWQkAAABbewN3eJi0F90kUywr8NrS User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174553 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:22:35 -0500 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:69654 Archived-At: Hi, I'm new to emacs, and my operating system is Win XP. I want to install a bundle, but I'm getting stuck in terms of creating an .emacs file and .emacs.d folder. They don't seem to exist after the install, and I'm not sure where to put them myself. I've had a look at the Windows FAQ section under "Where do I put my init file" and tried the steps as suggested: "If the environment variable HOME is set, use the directory it indicates." I looked under environmental variables in system properties, and the variable HOME didn't exist. "If the registry entry HKCU\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs\HOME is set, use the directory it indicates." I looked in the registry editor, and the key GNU doesn't exist. "If the registry entry HKLM\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs\HOME is set, use the directory it indicates. Not recommended, as it results in users sharing the same HOME directory." I didn't look here because it says 'not recommended'. "If C:\.emacs exists, then use C:/. This is for backward compatibility, as previous versions defaulted to C:/ if HOME was not set." .emacs (or _emacs) doesn't exist in the C: root. "Use the user's AppData directory, usually a directory called Application Data under the user's profile directory, the location of which varies according to Windows version and whether the computer is part of a domain." I'm not sure about this. Should I just create a new folder named .emacs.d in this directory? And should I just create a plain text file .emacs in the directory as well? Any help would be appreciated on this. Thanks