From: Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>
Subject: Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:25:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eetpa2$krm$3@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GQDpw-0003K0-EY@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote:
> This works fine with Linux, WindowsXP and Cygwin.
>
> Windows XP is an operating system, but Linux is just a part of one.
> Linux is the kernel that people use with the GNU system.
> If you call the system "Linux", that gives the system's principal developers
> none of the credit. Would you please give us equal mention
> by calling the system "GNU/Linux"?
Sorry about that. I'll refer to the OS as GNU/Linux in the future.
> Can I put a directory ".emacs.d" including an init.el somewhere under
> Windows/Cygwin so that it will be recognized by a default Emacs
> installation (C:\.emacs.d\init.el is ignored when there is no C:\.emacs
> or C:\_emacs)?
>
> Emacs ought to recognize ~/.emacs.d/init.el, on any system, when it does
> not find .emacs. If this does not work on Windows, it is a bug.
> Could you confirm that that is what is happening to you?
Setting the HOME variable in Windows solved the problem (see Eli's posting).
Regards
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-21 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-19 23:09 single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-20 3:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-21 10:21 ` Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-20 7:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-21 10:23 ` Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-21 1:58 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-21 10:25 ` Patrick Drechsler [this message]
2006-09-21 11:53 ` CHENG Gao
2006-09-21 12:15 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-21 20:15 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-22 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-23 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-23 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-22 2:41 ` CHENG Gao
2006-09-22 12:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-22 14:31 ` CHENG Gao
2006-09-23 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-23 10:17 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-21 2:51 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-09-21 10:25 ` Patrick Drechsler
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