From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Gary Weselle" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: problem visiting .emacs Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:39:06 -0700 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <4434634d_1@news.iprimus.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144284058 1005 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2006 00:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 06 02:40:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRIYP-0000l5-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:40:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRIYP-0001sv-CN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:40:53 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.24.167 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1144283982 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 1029 203.134.67.67:1963 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138561 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: , 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:34179 Archived-At: Hi I am using emacs under windos 2000, my HOME variable value is set to where my .emacs file is. C:\path-to-dir when I C-x C-f to visit it, the mini-buffer says Find file: C:\emacs-21.3\bin/ then I type in my path-to-file for .emacs, it then shows Searching for programe: no such file or directeory, aspell however I have the below line commneted out in my .emacs file ;(setq ispell-program-name "aspell") how can I fix these problems, 1) Find file: C:\emacs-21.3\bin/, I want to see my HOME directory instead. 2) not able to visit .c:\path-to-file\.emacs. thanks