From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sebastianeappen@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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) Message-ID: <5386b573-645d-43a7-b256-bcaa4f897258@googlegroups.com> References: <87zjtprjd6.fsf@informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373767817 15508 80.91.229.3 (14 Jul 2013 02:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:10:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 14 04:10:17 2013 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 1UyBlR-0000TN-L4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:10:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyBlR-0002CZ-1E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:10:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.172.129 with SMTP id l1mr38372259qaz.4.1373767788481; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:09:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.58.170 with SMTP id s10mr1540385qeq.28.1373767788467; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!t19no1434094qam.0!news-out.google.com!f7ni2314qai.0!nntp.google.com!t19no1527214qam.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87zjtprjd6.fsf@informatimago.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.57.11.241; posting-account=kb8EiAoAAACCRhT2z0Eh7jKB7ZSmHD0S Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.57.11.241 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:09:48 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199849 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:92116 Archived-At: On Saturday, July 13, 2013 9:00:21 PM UTC-5, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > sebastianeappen@gmail.com writes: > > > > > I unpacked a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3 on my Windows machine, > > > but I have no idea on where to create a .emacs for customizing > > > Emacs. I saw on the Find Init GNU Emacs manpage that the HOME > > > environment variable is where Emacs tries to find the .emacs file, but > > > I'm pretty sure that only works on GNU/Linux and/or Mac OS X, not > > > Windows. Can someone help me with this issue? > > > > Type in emacs: C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET ;; This is my .emacs RET C-x C-s > > > > -- > > __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ > > A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. > > You know you've been lisping too long when you see a recent picture of George > > 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.