From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs file in windows XP Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:51:52 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137530387 28033 80.91.229.2 (17 Jan 2006 20:39:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 17 21:39:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EyxcA-0001Bs-1h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:39:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EyxeV-0000rc-NM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:42:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eyvzy-0007N1-9R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eyvzv-0007LS-LX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eyvzu-0007L0-Hu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:56:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Eyw3d-0004Zr-9m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:59:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Eyvwd-0002Lp-HL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:52:39 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:52:39 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:52:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:32707 Archived-At: Herbert Euler wrote: >> From: Kevin Rodgers >> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: .emacs file in windows XP >> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:32:52 -0700 >> >> One can find out where Emacs is looking for that file with: >> M-: (expand-file-name "~/.emacs") > > So one can also find out which directory is home by typing > C-x d ~ RET, and the first line will show the whole name. Here's another way to do that: M-: (file-truename (expand-file-name "~")) -- Kevin Rodgers