From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: running emacs on a usb disk
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:47:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86acw2qm97.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040829194554.54047C15193@frontend1.messagingengine.com
Bill Kranec <billk@fastmail.fm> writes:
> I am a kind of new emacs user, and I have been experimenting with
> trying to run emacs standalone from a USB flash drive on Windows XP.
> Is it possible to make emacs load my .emacs file from a relative
> path on the USB disk, rather than looking in Windows' PATH or
> registry settings? Right now emacs looks for everything in C:\. I
> have tried reading through the user manual and some online
> resources, but I didn't see anything that I thought directly applied
> to this.
Emacs reads default.el and site-start.el, too. You could put your
config in those files. They are loaded from load-path.
Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-07 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-29 19:45 running emacs on a usb disk Bill Kranec
2004-08-29 21:43 ` Bill Kranec
[not found] ` <mailman.601.1093816152.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-08-30 10:22 ` Miguel Frasson
2004-09-07 12:47 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
[not found] <mailman.594.1093809069.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-08-29 20:14 ` Reiner Steib
2004-08-30 0:17 ` Johan Bockgård
2004-08-30 19:33 ` Kevin Rodgers
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