From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Kranec Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: running emacs on a usb disk Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:43:47 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040829214346.661B4C1524B@frontend1.messagingengine.com> References: <20040829194554.54047C15193@frontend1.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093815869 28104 80.91.224.253 (29 Aug 2004 21:44:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 23:44:22 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C1XTJ-0003ee-00 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:44:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1XY6-0005Bj-NG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1XXz-0005Be-9m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C1XXx-0005Au-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1XXx-0005Ap-L8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.30] (helo=frontend1.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1XSl-0004HG-TL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:43:48 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Wzg9D3DWv5A+umekCfYZVg 1093815826 Original-Received: from Laptop (68-232-111-121.chvlva.adelphia.net [68.232.111.121]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661B4C1524B for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:43:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: INLINE In-Reply-To: <20040829194554.54047C15193@frontend1.messagingengine.com> X-Mailer: Mahogany 0.66.0 'Clio', running under Windows NT 5.1 (build 2600, Service Pack 1) 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20364 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20364 On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:45:34 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Bill Kranec 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 > >