* Please Help me to find the .emacs file.
@ 2010-03-02 18:29 pkrakesh
2010-03-02 18:46 ` Andre Ramaciotti
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From: pkrakesh @ 2010-03-02 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I am new to Emacs. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and using Emacs 22 GTK. I
cannot able to find neither ~/.emacs file nor ~/.emacs.d/init.el in my
home folder. Where can I find the above file ? Anyone please help me.
Thanks.
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* Re: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.
2010-03-02 18:29 Please Help me to find the .emacs file pkrakesh
@ 2010-03-02 18:46 ` Andre Ramaciotti
2010-03-03 5:20 ` Drew Adams
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From: Andre Ramaciotti @ 2010-03-02 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Just create them, as you would create any other file.
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* RE: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.
2010-03-02 18:29 Please Help me to find the .emacs file pkrakesh
2010-03-02 18:46 ` Andre Ramaciotti
@ 2010-03-03 5:20 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-03 10:04 ` Suvayu Ali
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From: Drew Adams @ 2010-03-03 5:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'pkrakesh', help-gnu-emacs
> I am new to Emacs. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and using Emacs 22 GTK. I
> cannot able to find neither ~/.emacs file nor ~/.emacs.d/init.el in my
> home folder. Where can I find the above file ? Anyone please help me.
Start Emacs. Then do this:
C-x d ~/ RET
That will put you in your HOME directory (~/), even if you've forgotten where
that is.
C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET
That will put you in your .emacs file. If you don't yet have one, it will open a
new file buffer for you to edit.
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* Re: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.
2010-03-02 18:29 Please Help me to find the .emacs file pkrakesh
2010-03-02 18:46 ` Andre Ramaciotti
2010-03-03 5:20 ` Drew Adams
@ 2010-03-03 10:04 ` Suvayu Ali
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From: Suvayu Ali @ 2010-03-03 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 02/03/10 07:29 PM, pkrakesh wrote:
> I am new to Emacs. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and using Emacs 22 GTK. I
> cannot able to find neither ~/.emacs file nor ~/.emacs.d/init.el in my
> home folder. Where can I find the above file ? Anyone please help me.
> Thanks.
>
If you are trying to find it with nautilus, you won't be able to find
it. In any *nix system filenames starting with a dot are hidden by
default. To use nautilus to find your .emacs, tick "show hidden files"
from the "View" menu.
The path for your .emacs file is /home/<username>/.emacs
HTH
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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* Re: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.
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@ 2010-03-04 9:13 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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From: Pascal J. Bourguignon @ 2010-03-04 9:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> If you want to know what directory is used by Emacs as home, you may use
>> this function:
>
> Hmm.... this code looks rather odd:
>
>> (defun dirname (path)
>> (if (string-match "^\\(.*/\\)\\([^/]*\\)$" path)
>> (match-string 1 path)
>> "./"))
>
> Why not use (or (file-name-directory filename) "./") ?
Either because I didn't know about it or it didn't exist when I wrote
dirname.
>> (defun user-homedir-pathname ()
>> (if user-init-file
>> (dirname user-init-file)
>> (dirname (first (file-expand-wildcards "~/.emacs")))))
>
> There are no wildcards in "~/.emacs", so why use file-expand-wildcards?
>
> In any case the homedir is defined as "~" so (expand-file-name "~")
> is really all you need.
Thanks.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com
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