Thank you all for your help!  I did the C-x X-f ~/.emacs, and it worked!

Thanks again,
Matt

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Michel Chassey <mycuser@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Also setting an environement variable called HOME   =
> > c:\path\to\my\preferred\etc. in My Computer system will enable emacs to
> find
> > it just about anywhere on C:  ?
>
> After setting HOME you can load .emacs via
>
>  C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET
>
> Note the ~ which represents "home"
>
> --
> Vagn Johansen
>



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