From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Javier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:52:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451300126 19623 80.91.229.3 (28 Dec 2015 10:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:55:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 28 11:55:26 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDVSX-0002UG-SK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 11:55:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44167 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDVSX-0001cf-3a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 05:55:25 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: NpGanX2njae9ZwyoZgDYiQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.18.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216217 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108506 Archived-At: smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote: > The issue is that I am not loading my .emacs file > > I have just installed version 24.5.1 on my Windows 7 (running within Parallels on a Mac). > I currently have the same configuration on another machine, which I have been using for several years, and currently works fine. > > My home environment variable is Z:\ within emacs, I can determine that this is what emacs believes is home (getenv "home") evaluates to z:\\. > > Emacs knows the correct location of my user initialization file: > > user-init-file is a variable defined in `C source code'. > Its value is "z:/.emacs" There may be some problem with the windows filesystem in the Mac. Try calling the init file _emacs instead of .emacs (info "(emacs) MS-DOS File Names") http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/MS_002dDOS-File-Names.html