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: Where is .emacs in Linux? Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:55:00 +0000 Message-ID: <20090508115500.GA1074@muc.de> References: <23443988.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241783719 7505 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2009 11:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: tirengarfio Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 13:55:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M2OfT-0003O2-G0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 13:55:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2OfT-0001ak-39 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 07:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2Of8-0001aa-9X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 07:54:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2Of3-0001aK-NK for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 07:54:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49620 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2Of3-0001aH-IB for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 07:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:3810 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2Of3-0000uJ-72 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 07:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 27824 invoked by uid 3782); 8 May 2009 11:54:36 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E504F6.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.4.246]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 May 2009 13:54:35 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1134 invoked by uid 1000); 8 May 2009 11:55:00 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <23443988.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:64241 Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:04:37AM -0700, tirengarfio wrote: > Hi, > I have installed emacs in ubuntu 8.04 through "sudo apt-get install > emacs" and i want to activate the cuamode. > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CuaMode Here you can see that to > activate the cuamode i should edit ".emacs" but where is it?? As yet, nowhere. You have to create the file yourself. Normally, it will be in your home directory. To create it, do C-x C-f ~/.emacs (i.e. "control x, control f, type in "~/.emacs", then hit carriage return) Edit away to your heart's content. > Bye -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).