Re: running emacs on a usb disk

[Bill Kranec <billk@fastmail.fm>]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:45:34 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Bill Kranec <billk@fastmail.fm> wrote:

Thanks for the useful info and links, but I had something a little bit different in mind.  The fixes you suggested will work on my personal computer, but what I would like is to be able to plug the usb disk into any computer, and launch emacs with my  settings without changing anything on that computer.  (In other words, run emacs entirely from the removeable drive.)  Is this even possible?

Thanks Again,

Bill

> Hello,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give, I really appreciate it.
> 
> Bill
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