From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Ingalls Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New to Emacs Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 03:22:23 GMT Organization: Road Runner - NYC Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4sqJb.5789$6B.4984@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073101615 10802 80.91.224.253 (3 Jan 2004 03:46:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 03:46:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 03 04:46:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcckW-00065i-00 for ; Sat, 03 Jan 2004 04:46:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Acdgi-0006pP-Tp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:47:00 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!news3.optonline.net!cyclone.rdc-nyc.rr.com!news-out.nyc.rr.com!twister.nyc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <4sqJb.5789$6B.4984@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net> Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.168.135.183 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: twister.nyc.rr.com 1073100143 24.168.135.183 (Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:22:23 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:22:23 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119730 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15673 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15673 Stephen wrote: > I just downloaded Emacs 21.3 windows for Java development. > What directory do I put the .el files in? In Emacs, when you hit C-h v load-path where 'C' is your Control key, this shows the paths where Emacs will find *.el. A good choice would be similar to C:\Program Files\Emacs21.3\site-lisp\ > I have not been able to find a .emacs file in my Emacs directory. Unless you are running w9x (use autoexec.bat instead) you should set your %HOME% environment variable using the system->advanced control panel. You then create a new .emacs or _emacs file there. You might wish to take a look at http://emacro.sf.net/ my project for new Emacs users. It has nice links to JDEE and EmacsWiki.org which provide many answers.