From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: windows: find init Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4cd711ae-d043-48f2-9332-444d85059274@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434167119 5541 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2015 03:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:45:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 13 05:45:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3cNi-0003Zr-J5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 05:45:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3cNi-0004ne-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:45:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.61.66 with SMTP id n2mr22728840obr.20.1434166946502; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:42:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.136.166 with SMTP id qb6mr144596igb.2.1434166946456; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:42:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h15no2378202igd.0!news-out.google.com!n7ni8621igk.0!nntp.google.com!h15no2378199igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.53.3; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.53.3 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:42:26 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212617 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104901 Archived-At: 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