From: GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: New to Emacs
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 04:34:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16375.35294.555287.891026@mail.eng.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4sqJb.5789$6B.4984@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>
>>>>> "S" == Stephen <sedelblut@hotmail.com> writes:
S> Hi, I just downloaded Emacs 21.3 precompiled windows version. I
S> want to use it for Java development. An article I am reading shows
S> how to do this, and I have downloaded several .el files. What
S> directory do I put these files in?
Any directory that appears in your load-path variable, see below.
S> Also, the article says to
S> modify my .emacs file. I have not been able to find a .emacs file
S> in my Emacs directory.
Windows version comes with a BAT file and a CMD maybe (I use Windows
only at work and now I'm on holyday). Look at these files, they set a
HOME variable (that cames from Unix $HOME variable containing the home
directory of the user in the file system).
NT and its successors let you set a HOME variable in the My Computer
properties tabbed dialog (usually is a button called Environment or
such).
Emacs directory (Windows precompiled) contains a file with some
registry entries that set the other variables you see in the CMD or
BAT files.
The .emacs file (Windows version of Emacs accepts _emacs also since
Windows could have problems with "dot files" - they are the "hidden"
files in Unix) should reside in that directory.
If my memory isn't wrong if HOME is unset then Emacs uses C:\
Back to the .el files.
If you put them in C:\example then you should put in your .emacs
something like:
(setq load-path (nconc load-path (list "C:/example")))
This LISP statement sets the load-path variable (setq function) with
the result of the function nconc that concatenates any number of lists
(load-path is a list) by altering them. Only the last argument is not
altered, and need not be a list.
Therefore if at startup load-path content is
("c:/emacs/lisp" "c:/emacs/site-lisp")
after that statement it becomes
("c:/emacs/lisp" "c:/emacs/site-lisp" . "c:/example")
The load-path variable acts like Unix $PATH and Windows %PATH
variable.
BTW, be sure that all exe files are in directories listed in your
system PATH :).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-04 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-03 3:14 New to Emacs Stephen
2004-01-03 3:22 ` Bruce Ingalls
2004-01-04 3:34 ` Gian Uberto Lauri [this message]
2004-01-07 17:39 ` Greg Fenton
[not found] <mailman.1282.1224217100.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-17 5:32 ` New to emacs poppyer
2008-10-17 5:38 ` Cor Gest
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2008-10-16 20:12 Mario Xerxes Castelán Castro
2008-10-17 8:29 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-10-17 8:37 ` Alberto Luaces
[not found] <mailman.316.1040140647.19936.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-12-17 17:50 ` New to Emacs Kai Großjohann
2002-12-19 11:11 ` Kester Clegg
2002-12-17 18:45 ` Peter Lee
2002-12-18 18:07 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-12-20 16:09 ` Lee Sau Dan
2002-12-20 16:19 ` Lee Sau Dan
2002-12-17 15:59 Code Fox
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