From: Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:22:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56848345.9000109@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd0941b4-38e6-4502-8f0c-249113516dcf@googlegroups.com>
On 12/30/2015 07:16 PM, smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote:
>> Put your .emacs in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming
>>
>> if you happen to be Administator, otherwise substitute your User-name
>> for Administrator. This is where Emacs thinks your home directory is.
>>
>> Ed
> Ed, I'm running in Windows 7. when I evaluate (getenv "home"), it gives me "z:/" That is my root/home, so would not my .emacs be expected to be there? I currently have it there.
> Thanks, Gerard
>
What does C-h v user-init-file show? According to the documentation that
should return the file name, including directory, of user's
initialization file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-31 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 21:49 Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) smits.gerard.j
2015-12-28 10:52 ` Javier
2015-12-30 6:15 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-30 22:30 ` B. T. Raven
2015-12-31 0:16 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-31 1:22 ` Charles Millar [this message]
2015-12-31 3:06 ` John Mastro
[not found] ` <mailman.1396.1451524964.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 23:20 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-30 16:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-12-30 18:19 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-31 0:50 ` John Mastro
2016-01-07 0:06 ` smits.gerard.j
2016-01-07 15:47 ` B. T. Raven
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=56848345.9000109@verizon.net \
--to=millarc@verizon.net \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.