From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3? Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:08:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83sizd15e5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <864nbtuq2t.fsf@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374080892 6136 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2013 17:08:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:08:12 +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 Jul 17 19:08:13 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 1UzVD0-0000gJ-4q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:08:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzVCz-0003FU-M7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzVCo-0003FP-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzVCn-0004Mt-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:65322) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzVCn-0004Ma-4n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MQ300900BD3NO00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:07:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MQ30090FBL7LH60@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:07:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <864nbtuq2t.fsf@hotmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:92212 Archived-At: > From: Vagn Johansen > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:08:26 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:46 -0400 (EDT) > >> From: Jude DaShiell > >> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > >> > >> A read through of the emacs-windows.faq file states that HOME works, but > >> windows 7 at least isn't set up for emacs to find its .emacs file and some > >> registry key editing is needed. > > > > That's not true. Just start Emacs, type "C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET" and > > you will see that Emacs finds HOME very well on Windows 7. Unless you > > are using a very old version of Emacs (the latest is 24.3). > > I assume you are not talking about the environment variable? Yes, I am. > When I get a new Windows machine I always immediately set HOME in the > environment to > > c:/Users/ > > so the .emacs file is read from a non-weird place. You don't have to. Emacs does that by default (on Windows 7).