From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: thorne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Running Emacs from a USB drive Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:22:04 -0700 Organization: impossible. Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178906867 4000 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2007 18:07:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:07:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 11 20:07:46 2007 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 1HmZWq-0007pA-Hm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 20:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmZeH-0002Y7-Tm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 14:15:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!news.skynet.be!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xwsRWiKvRGrGFeJyiuDlQw.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAMFBMVEVHQD/3+vz9+/4lPlF4 kLzv5t79/f/9+PWnTVUiJy5JV3KkoIj////Mx8YWFBP9+vzFQ3bFAAACMUlEQVQ4jb3RP2gTURwH 8HPocCmNnNAI1SJZMikOl+UibpkOHCqciiGUy/CEehKXFFGKa8ClUJd3B2fksvRC04QaJTnOUIcb JJJ2SKDGSNcr+KNXMEMQnodJte+Srj5404fv+/15TOucw/xXcMj1c8CbBl/2EbpxdwrIO8Idbis2 BRobPM9XKfgUy1xOvxP5BM/HL3FZOeKMQB4gbmmxkTR5gzeaOekkNgbEPZLSKcM0/Kf428vzS8hR /kDWWcvbvQ1ewP69xfWlyLhGZvdZ/gO3KcykKqqlcWvWqjICRc69ekl2hDnJP2r0QX4VjbtyCPHk A8zMdqTKCEY1Wu0s4hbrQsLg6/FENNc5UZTTAR20oJeKoqgmC902cs5M3v65Z5mm2CgmulGkoH/Q cl4wltVJN0IRP6Cc3dVuT7X7/frMr4klVsyE1RDWvwVhBSeTSVEAWw7AMS6K2ATYukYD+ghFERiA 6oCCNmEhLgLW4YJHgfMY4LWoY4AjQsOxDsWkvg4A3WnAuDpcpGFBB8MEH+waDUMtXcF+Da2WpmHe lr5iF7uaRSdapNdnsAug9pbpxIAM1bDfk0boAVso87yAwdXfogD422V9YKsTa39isnrZxdtXg/C5 gI/KLvNmIrEShh/lQ3Yyscfq298B9hUaHPQwfHh/OFuY8wJdyQeVQ/LUtTZt+gedQaFRbl4B1TSb NHhaKfw+mq6EmMB/cKUQc0++6RHCBbpKWbW/ZSlwEAnAb3NDHSx48elnAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Cancel-Lock: sha1:KPboOCrSTvNcMRxPSx69E39BBAI= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148277 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:12:04 -0400 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:43886 Archived-At: Hello all. If i want to run my own Emacs on various random MS-Windows machines, is it as simple as unpacking a Windows binary distribution onto a USB drive or iPod or whatever, and maybe making a site-start.el to grok the current drive letter and set that as the home directory? I am guessing there is more to it than that...? -- þ theron tlåx þ (compose-mail (concat "thorne@" (rot13 "gvzoeny") ".net"))