From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3? Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:00:21 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87zjtprjd6.fsf@informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373767515 12610 80.91.229.3 (14 Jul 2013 02:05:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:05:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 14 04:05:18 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 1UyBga-0005vL-Nv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:05:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyBgZ-0001QE-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:05:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Jh4Jp9dF4pfIDFoY1tWg3ABvQUFr16OmvIZBuXlJPcASuzyCN0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NzQyMTEwNmExMjNlMDNmYjE1OGUzYjNhNjFkY2VlNWIzZDZhYmM1Mg== sha1:JulDPyfgLng8xiTnXS2x1ap6F/I= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199848 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:92115 Archived-At: sebastianeappen@gmail.com writes: > I unpacked a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3 on my Windows machine, > but I have no idea on where to create a .emacs for customizing > Emacs. I saw on the Find Init GNU Emacs manpage that the HOME > environment variable is where Emacs tries to find the .emacs file, but > I'm pretty sure that only works on GNU/Linux and/or Mac OS X, not > Windows. Can someone help me with this issue? Type in emacs: C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET ;; This is my .emacs RET C-x C-s -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. You know you've been lisping too long when you see a recent picture of George Lucas and think "Wait, I thought John McCarthy was dead!" -- Dalek_Baldwin