From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
Subject: Re: running emacs on a usb disk
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 02:17:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoijsma5v5r1.fsf@ancalime.dd.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.594.1093809069.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Bill Kranec <billk@fastmail.fm> writes:
> I am a kind of new emacs user, and I have been experimenting with
> trying to run emacs standalone from a USB flash drive on Windows XP.
> Is it possible to make emacs load my .emacs file from a relative
> path on the USB disk, rather than looking in Windows' PATH or
> registry settings? Right now emacs looks for everything in C:\. I
> have tried reading through the user manual and some online
> resources, but I didn't see anything that I thought directly applied
> to this.
Read about "site-start.el" and "default.el" here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Init-File.html
--
Johan Bockgård
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-30 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.594.1093809069.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-08-29 20:14 ` running emacs on a usb disk Reiner Steib
2004-08-30 0:17 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
2004-08-30 19:33 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-08-29 19:45 Bill Kranec
2004-08-29 21:43 ` Bill Kranec
[not found] ` <mailman.601.1093816152.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-08-30 10:22 ` Miguel Frasson
2004-09-07 12:47 ` Kai Grossjohann
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