From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Drechsler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158834636 23759 80.91.229.2 (21 Sep 2006 10:30:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 12:30:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLov-0003xU-H6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLov-0006i3-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLol-0006hV-6w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLoj-0006h9-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLoj-0006h6-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GQLsD-0008Hy-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLog-0003tG-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:30:02 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-084-057-068-213.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.57.68.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:30:02 +0200 Original-Received: from patrick by dslb-084-057-068-213.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:30:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-057-068-213.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60059 Archived-At: 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