From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3? Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <67892ca6-1058-4d63-8c3b-b905f4248887@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373857221 25403 80.91.229.3 (15 Jul 2013 03:00:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 03:00:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 15 05:00:22 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 1UyZ1Q-0002if-DG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 05:00:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54704 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyZ1Q-0002a2-4F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:00:20 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.185.132 with SMTP id fc4mr5338880wic.7.1373857202185; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:00:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.17.42 with SMTP id l10mr1605308qed.10.1373857201744; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!cw2no21005110wib.0!news-out.google.com!b5ni53436wiz.1!nntp.google.com!cw2no21005108wib.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=108.89.145.141; posting-account=czAMxQoAAAAUEojshw4CrIvcwSdulymE Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.89.145.141 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 03:00:02 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199860 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:92127 Archived-At: On Saturday, July 13, 2013 8:54:38 PM UTC-5, sebasti...@gmail.com wrote: > I unpacked a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3 on my Windows machine, bu= t I have no idea on where to create a .emacs for customizing Emacs. I saw o= n the Find Init GNU Emacs manpage that the HOME environment variable is whe= re 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 i= ssue? You can define the HOME environmental variable in Windows, if you wish to d= o so. There are user environmental variables that can be defined, as well = as system ones. For Windows XP Home, Control Panel, System, Environmental V= ariables is where you can define user environmental variables and/or change= values of system environmental variables (use caution!).