From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Windows7 and .emacs files Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:07:39 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297534192 11476 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2011 18:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:09:52 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Matthew Pettis'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 12 19:09:42 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PoJuf-0007El-NL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:09:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40501 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PoJud-0006oa-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:09:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54223 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PoJtc-0006HT-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PoJta-0004X8-CH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:08:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:20729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PoJtZ-0004Wn-L3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:08:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p1CI8SZU024733 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:08:29 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p1CI8R71001647; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:08:27 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt013.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 1048219711297534063; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:07:43 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.54.199) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:07:43 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcvK3ucpG5xDZmrGS0WXwP4pv1GoYwAAFnlw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.121 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:79083 Archived-At: >> 2. I can't make '.emacs' files anywhere because the >> OS tells me I need a filename (i.e., I can't have a >> leading '.' in the filename). > > I think I need to retract this... I just see that I > overlooked the fact that I can name a file 'init.el' > which should suffice. In addition, it might help to know that you can easily create a `.emacs' file using Emacs itself. Just use `C-x C-f .emacs' in your home directory (for example, c:/). Put whatever you want in the file, save it, and restart Emacs to use it.