From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vagn Johansen 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 18:08:26 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <864nbtuq2t.fsf@hotmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374080075 29098 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2013 16:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:54:35 +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 18:54:36 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 1UzUzs-0000V4-FG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:54:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47539 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzUzs-0003vQ-5e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:54:36 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DtSszadpwBcWwbtoWfl6iv8Omzo= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.161.56.105 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=g?TM\RiOT9m5kL0JZ2 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:92211 Archived-At: 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? 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. -- Vagn Johansen