From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for winXP Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:22:56 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Message-ID: <0v6gbd.ra.ln@acm.acm> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121697216 7297 80.91.229.2 (18 Jul 2005 14:33:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 18 16:33:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuWgN-0004JU-BX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:33:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuWiI-0005ep-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:35:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1121696934 65385 193.149.49.134 (18 Jul 2005 14:28:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jul 2005 14:28:54 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132479 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:27992 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27992 Paminu wrote on Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:00:58 +0200: > I have just installed emacs for winXP. But where is the .emacs file > located? I have just checked "Syntax Highlighting" and that would be > stored in a .emacs file right? > But it is nowhere to be found No. It is your personal customisation file, and doesn't exist until you create it. Do C-x C-f, and when prompted for a file, type ~/.emacs. (That last dot's the end of the sentence, not the end of the filename, by the way). Edit the file and save it. It will do the right thing the next time you start Emacs. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").