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From: "Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie question: Where to find emacs stqrtup file on Windows
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:35:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ad1ed39$0$284$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.8534.1255270031.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

bar tomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I've downloaded emacs22.3-bin-i386.zip from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/
> I've unzipped the archive and searched for either ".emacs.el" ,
> ".emacs" or "_emacs" but have found none of these.
> Where should the startup file be exactly?
> Many thanks.
> 
> 

Bar,
Open the file "~/.emacs.el",
ignore any warning about this file not existing.

~/ on UNIX is the user's home directory.
Emacs on MS-Windows will map this to the correct file.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-11 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.8534.1255270031.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-11 14:11 ` Newbie question: Where to find emacs stqrtup file on Windows Jon Solberg
2009-10-12 11:09   ` bar tomas
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8589.1255345760.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-12 11:51     ` Jon Solberg
2009-10-11 14:35 ` Colin S. Miller [this message]
2009-10-11 15:03   ` bar tomas
2009-10-11 14:07 bar tomas
2009-10-11 14:21 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-10-11 14:41   ` bar tomas
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8538.1255272119.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-11 14:45     ` Colin S. Miller

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