From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3? Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373859478 10378 80.91.229.3 (15 Jul 2013 03:37:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 03:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ken Goldman Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 15 05:37:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UyZbq-0002pd-Ag for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 05:37:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyZbp-0000bT-BU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyZbg-0000bG-EH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyZbf-0002I5-DY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:48 -0400 Original-Received: from shellworld.net ([69.60.117.94]:63020 helo=server1.shellworld.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyZbf-0002I1-8y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix, from userid 1024) id 3065422950; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F05322848; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Mac OS X 10.x X-Received-From: 69.60.117.94 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92128 Archived-At: On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Ken Goldman wrote: > HOME definitely works on Windows. > > On 7/13/2013 9:54 PM, sebastianeappen@gmail.com wrote: > > I saw on the Find Init GNU Emacs manpage that the > > HOME environment variable is where Emacs tries to find the .emacs > > file, but I'm pretty sure that only works on GNU/Linux and/or Mac OS > > X, not Windows. Can someone help me with this issue? > > > > > > A read through of the emacs-windows.faq file states that HOME works, but windows 7 at least isn't set up for emacs to find its .emacs file and some registry key editing is needed. I'll find out how well the approach shared earlier on this list works when I have something to add to the .emacs I created. If it shows up as I start emacs, then this approach has saved me registry key editing and that will be a good thing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude About to block another web browser version? Ask yourself what Tim Berners-lee would do.