Thank you all for your help!  I did the C-x X-f ~/.emacs, and it worked!<div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Vagn Johansen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gonz808@hotmail.com">gonz808@hotmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">Michel Chassey &lt;<a href="mailto:mycuser@gmail.com">mycuser@gmail.com</a>&gt; writes:<br>
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&gt; Also setting an environement variable called HOME   =<br>
&gt; c:\path\to\my\preferred\etc. in My Computer system will enable emacs to find<br>
&gt; it just about anywhere on C:  ?<br>
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</div>After setting HOME you can load .emacs via<br>
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 C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET<br>
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Note the ~ which represents &quot;home&quot;<br>
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<font color="#888888">Vagn Johansen<br>
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