windows: find init

[Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

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?

Yeah I know about
user-init-file
user-emacs-directory
locate-user-emacs-file

But I have failed so far to make them point to a reasonable place

So for now my suggestion is to just keep it whatever way (wherever) emacs
prefers it and add to it.

However it is rather painful and all my attempts to set up env variables to
make emacs directory match %user-profile% have been fruitless so far.

Is there any better known way?

[
Yeah I admit that if someone asked me to change the path ~/.emacs.d to something
else on *nix I would not know any more how to do it (from outside emacs) than
I do for windows.  However on *nix its unnecessary. On windows its uhh.. a bit
inconvenient
]