Please Help me to find the .emacs file.

Please Help me to find the .emacs file.

[pkrakesh]

I am new to Emacs. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and using Emacs 22 GTK. I
cannot able to find neither ~/.emacs file nor ~/.emacs.d/init.el in my
home folder. Where can I find the above file ? Anyone please help me.
Thanks.

Re: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.

[Andre Ramaciotti]

Just create them, as you would create any other file.

RE: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.

[Drew Adams]

> I am new to Emacs. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and using Emacs 22 GTK. I
> cannot able to find neither ~/.emacs file nor ~/.emacs.d/init.el in my
> home folder. Where can I find the above file ? Anyone please help me.

Start Emacs. Then do this:

C-x d ~/ RET

That will put you in your HOME directory (~/), even if you've forgotten where
that is.

C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET

That will put you in your .emacs file. If you don't yet have one, it will open a
new file buffer for you to edit.

Re: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.

[Suvayu Ali]

On 02/03/10 07:29 PM, pkrakesh wrote:
> I am new to Emacs. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and using Emacs 22 GTK. I
> cannot able to find neither ~/.emacs file nor ~/.emacs.d/init.el in my
> home folder. Where can I find the above file ? Anyone please help me.
> Thanks.
>

If you are trying to find it with nautilus, you won't be able to find 
it. In any *nix system filenames starting with a dot are hidden by 
default. To use nautilus to find your .emacs, tick "show hidden files" 
from the "View" menu.

The path for your .emacs file is /home/<username>/.emacs

HTH

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> If you want to know what directory is used by Emacs as home, you may use
>> this function:
>
> Hmm.... this code looks rather odd:
>
>> (defun dirname (path)
>>   (if (string-match "^\\(.*/\\)\\([^/]*\\)$" path)
>>       (match-string 1 path)
>>     "./"))
>
> Why not use (or (file-name-directory filename) "./") ?

Either because I didn't know about it or it didn't exist when I wrote
dirname.


>> (defun user-homedir-pathname ()
>>   (if user-init-file
>>       (dirname user-init-file)
>>     (dirname (first (file-expand-wildcards "~/.emacs")))))
>
> There are no wildcards in "~/.emacs", so why use file-expand-wildcards?
>
> In any case the homedir is defined as "~" so (expand-file-name "~")
> is really all you need.

Thanks.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__
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