From: sebastianeappen@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3?
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:09:48 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5386b573-645d-43a7-b256-bcaa4f897258@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjtprjd6.fsf@informatimago.com>
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 9:00:21 PM UTC-5, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> sebastianeappen@gmail.com writes:
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> > I unpacked a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3 on my Windows machine,
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> > but I have no idea on where to create a .emacs for customizing
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> > Emacs. I saw on the Find Init GNU Emacs manpage that the HOME
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> > environment variable is where Emacs tries to find the .emacs file, but
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> > I'm pretty sure that only works on GNU/Linux and/or Mac OS X, not
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> > Windows. Can someone help me with this issue?
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> Type in emacs: C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET ;; This is my .emacs RET C-x C-s
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> --
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> __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
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> A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.
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> You know you've been lisping too long when you see a recent picture of George
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> Lucas and think "Wait, I thought John McCarthy was dead!" -- Dalek_Baldwin
Thanks for the advice. I thought typing ~/ in C-x C-f wouldn't work on Windows, only on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-14 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-14 1:54 How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3? sebastianeappen
2013-07-14 2:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-14 2:09 ` sebastianeappen [this message]
2013-07-15 0:59 ` Ken Goldman
2013-07-15 3:37 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-07-15 4:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1065.1373863439.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-17 16:08 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-07-17 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-20 22:03 ` Ken Goldman
[not found] ` <mailman.1492.1374357816.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-21 8:45 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-07-21 13:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1507.1374412093.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-21 14:59 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-07-21 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-22 4:04 ` Yuri Khan
2013-07-15 3:00 ` Alan
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