From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs file Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <742c8595-7cbb-4bd2-8426-2bfae586d437@12g2000pri.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250089624 18781 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2009 15:07:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:07:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 12 17:06:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MbFPe-0002pn-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:06:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58399 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbFPc-0008UK-6V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:06:48 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!12g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1250064037 27361 127.0.0.1 (12 Aug 2009 08:00:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 12g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu comp.emacs:98568 gnu.emacs.help:171901 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:01:55 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67085 Archived-At: On Aug 11, 11:16 am, David Moncrieff wrote: > Could someone direct me to information concerning ".emacs" file, in > particular I am trying to find the location of said file under Windows > Vista. I'm currently using emacs 22.3 under windows vista. > > Any help would be appreciated. could be several places. On Windows, here are possible locations: C:/Users/xah/AppData/Roaming/ C:/Users/xah/ C:/cygwin/home/xah/ in general, it is at your OS's env variable HOME. if you don't have HOME set, for how to set env var on Windows, see top of: =E2=80=A2 Using PowerShell to Manage Environment Variables http://xahlee.org/powershell/environment_variables.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84