From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: windows: find init
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:42:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cd711ae-d043-48f2-9332-444d85059274@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4887.1434166518.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 9:05:21 AM UTC+5:30, Vaidheeswaran C wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2015 08:49 AM, Rusi wrote:
> > Some students of mine have shown willingness to work with emacs
> > However the problems of setup on windows are proving beyond me.
> >
> > In particular, on windows, where is the emacs setup file/directory?
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/efaq-w32.html#Location-of-init-file
[Not on windows now so from memory]
Yeah I know that page
And I tried those env-variable setting options [for a couple of hours] before
giving up
In fact the first thing I do when setting emacs on a windows box is to
try to make the (where I expect) init file have a elisp error
such as an open '(' without a close ')'
When emacs protests about the error, I know we agree on the location of the
file and can proceed
Until then keep adjusting env variables till we agree
On XP this approach used to work.
Win-7 dont know
Win-8 it doesn't
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-13 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-13 3:19 windows: find init Rusi
2015-06-13 3:32 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-06-13 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-13 8:17 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-06-13 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-13 9:10 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-06-13 9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-13 9:40 ` Vaidheeswaran C
[not found] ` <mailman.4887.1434166518.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-13 3:42 ` Rusi [this message]
2015-06-13 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4896.1434183362.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-13 11:56 ` Rusi
2015-06-13 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-13 4:32 ` John Mastro
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