From: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>
To: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: OS independent way to specify location of .emacs.d directory
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 19:19:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACeWA3jAV1ir34dDsxG846Za5EovjmHcgQGEFpFk0ciTx7eBeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130403170119.2bef743a@gauss>
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For unix it's `user-emacs-directory` but on Windows it's trickier:
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/DotEmacsDotD
I can't vouch that's an up-to-date article though.
-Steven
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> wrote:
> Is there way that specifies the path to the .emacs.d
> directory that works on Linux, Windows, and Mac?
> Currently I use
>
> (format "%s/.emacs.d" (getenv "HOME"))
>
> However, I doubt that is necessarily correct on Windows.
>
>
> --
> Joe Riel
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-04 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 0:01 OS independent way to specify location of .emacs.d directory Joe Riel
2013-04-04 0:19 ` Steven Degutis [this message]
2013-04-04 2:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2013-04-04 0:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-04 20:56 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-04-04 21:04 ` Ludwig, Mark
2013-04-05 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 13:33 ` Ludwig, Mark
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