From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: Can't find .emacs file on Cygwin Emacs
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:40:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87llp9n9kj.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 70hdzxannv.fsf@apokrif.xyz
Apokrif <apokrif1@yahoo.com> writes:
> I've got an Emacs for Windows 98 which uses C:\_emacs ("_", not ".").
Emacs for Windows reads ~/.emacs if present, else it looks for
~/_emacs.
Whoever uses Emacs on a non-DOS system should try C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET
(with tilde and a forward slash). The file you're then looking at is
your .emacs file -- maybe it is new, and thus empty.
The DOSish eight-dot-three convention does not allow .emacs as a file
name. AFAIK, DOS is the only system where .emacs is not called
.emacs.
Kai
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2003-12-18 16:22 ` Can't find .emacs file on Cygwin Emacs Harald Maier
2003-12-18 20:14 ` Apokrif
2003-12-18 20:40 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2003-12-18 21:16 ` Apokrif
2003-12-18 23:40 ` Jason Rumney
2003-12-18 14:12 Martin Tian
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