From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: running emacs on a usb disk Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:33:59 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <41338127.2040409@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093894536 17181 80.91.224.253 (30 Aug 2004 19:35:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 21:35:29 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 1C1rw9-0002hl-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:35:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1s0y-00023g-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de M++tDFqaCYJ4HojwqU3SFA/Lw34vAiagazz9ZNBjOTIhcxdq8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125030 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20380 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20380 Johan Bockg=E5rd wrote: > Read about "site-start.el" and "default.el" here: > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Init-File.html Since site-run-file (site-start.el) is loaded before ~/.emacs (user-init-file) but default.el is loaded after it, I think what the OP needs to to is set user-init-file within site-start.el: (setq user-init-file "f:\\some\\path\\.emacs") --=20 Kevin Rodgers