From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: windows: find init Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 04:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <4cd711ae-d043-48f2-9332-444d85059274@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434196824 1651 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2015 12:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 12:00:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 13 14:00:24 2015 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 1Z3k6o-0006Z4-G0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:00:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3k6n-0004KT-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:00:21 -0400 X-Received: by 10.129.84.193 with SMTP id i184mr25494633ywb.48.1434196616415; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 04:56:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.72.42 with SMTP id a10mr167227igv.14.1434196616364; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 04:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!z60no981451qgd.1!news-out.google.com!n7ni8953igk.0!nntp.google.com!h15no2386309igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.41.124; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.41.124 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:56:56 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212629 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:104913 Archived-At: On Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 1:46:04 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:42:25 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Rusi > > Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:42:26 +0000 > > > > On Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 9:05:21 AM UTC+5:30, Vaidheeswaran C wrote: > > > On Saturday 13 June 2015 08:49 AM, Rusi wrote: > > > > Some students of mine have shown willingness to work with emacs > > > > However the problems of setup on windows are proving beyond me. > > > > > > > > In particular, on windows, where is the emacs setup file/directory? > > > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/efaq-w32.html#Location-of-init-file > > > > [Not on windows now so from memory] > > Yeah I know that page > > And I tried those env-variable setting options [for a couple of hours] before > > giving up > > I'm guessing you have added/changed the environment variables or > Registry values without logoff/logon afterwards, and expected that to > work. It won't. Heh You are right Eli! Its working and I didn't know it I turn on windows once every 6 months and towards maintaining my BP I dont turn it on again for another 6 In the session which I tried it didn't work... Didnt try again And in all fairness *nix is just the same: Changing .profile does not work immediately Not directly germane to emacs but it would sure help if this fact were mentioned in the docs.