From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Location of .emacs in Windows 7 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:12:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87oapygnpf.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421460760 20796 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2015 02:12:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 02:12:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 17 03:12:39 2015 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 1YCIsP-0003ja-7i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:12:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58059 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCIsO-0008Ev-8t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:12:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54957) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCIs9-0008DJ-S2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:12:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCIs5-0006HD-3X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:12:21 -0500 Original-Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([2001:808:114:2::50]:51010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCIs4-0006Gx-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:12:17 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9935347F2D for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:12:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id g0QbCDsqCi1N for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:12:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (117-116.echostar.pl [213.156.117.116]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4CA7F47F06 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:12:14 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:808:114:2::50 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:102124 Archived-At: On 2015-01-17, at 01:38, Steve Graham wrote: > Using C-x C-f I can read in, edit and store .emacs in ~/.emacs . > However, when I search for the file, I cannot find it. Try C-h v user-init-file or M-: (find-file user-init-file) > I was also trying to store an org file in ~/org-mode/work.org . It > seemed sometimes that it would read those files from ~/org-mode/work.org > and write them to c:/Users//AppData/Roaming/org-mode/work.org . > And I could not find that file/path either. There is also the variable abbreviated-home-dir, but I'm not sure how it works. > I have taken to storing the org files in > C:/Users//Desktop/org-file/work.org . It works but I would rather > use ~/org-mode for the directory. > > Any thoughts on this? > > Thanks, Steve Hth, -- Marcin Borkowski This email was proudly sent http://mbork.pl from my Emacs.