From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: DaveLG526 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: screencast: setting emacs HOME environment variable in windows. Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9f080093-2995-463d-ae6d-6c02a95f2e99@e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> References: <8d0f7dd0-08bd-43fc-b526-cd36fb1ee38d@s20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <2e632266-2999-47ec-85f8-1a1280ba52d3@j39g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236636667 22696 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2009 22:11:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:11:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 09 23:12:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lgnhh-0003Pb-Vi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:12:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42487 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LgngM-0002gK-9O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:10:46 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.52.200.227 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1236566776 5474 127.0.0.1 (9 Mar 2009 02:46:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=99.52.200.227; posting-account=vEXdlgoAAABytWM2VDAZ3Be0_-uekw5A User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167482 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62785 Archived-At: On Mar 6, 8:04=A0am, "dericby...@gmail.com" wrote: > On Mar 6, 2:03=A0pm, "B. T. Raven" wrote: > > > dericby...@gmail.com wrote: > > >http://dericbytes.blogspot.com/2009/03/emacs-screencast-emacs-home-en.= .. > > > > I made a screencast. Its very rough but maybe helpful to someone. > > > > Not sure what my bandwidth restrictions are. So would like to know > > > where to host them for free, if I decide to make some more. > > > Even at 300 baud, "Start>Settings>Control > > Panel>System>Advanced>Environment Variables>New User Variable: > > Home=3DWhatever" shouldn't take longer than about 1 sec. Is this the ri= ght > > tool for the right job? My apologies if I didn't understand. Since I > > have dialup, I didn't try to watch the movie. > > In Linux you don't even have to worry about this do you? > > I know using a screencast to set the PATH variable is over kill. I > only really made it to test making screencasts. I thought I'd do this > because it was the first thing I needed to set when I used emacs.... > For some people it may only take a few seconds to download, and some > people may get comfort from watching it being done, if they read some > instructions and it did not work for them.... =A0I was really wondering > where I could host some for free if I made one with more beneficial > content. It is a simple task but for someone who is not familiar with the process a video is nice. I have to admit I was debugging something recently in what I thought was "My" .emacs file but in reality my .emacs file was in the Application Data folder section of My windows setup.