From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: windows: find init Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434165618 18488 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2015 03:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:20:18 +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 05:20:18 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 1Z3bzV-0001EX-PZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 05:20:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3bzU-0001FJ-TN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:20:16 -0400 X-Received: by 10.129.50.20 with SMTP id y20mr22934394ywy.13.1434165548661; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:19:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.43.194 with SMTP id y2mr142899igl.4.1434165548605; Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!z60no925985qgd.1!news-out.google.com!n7ni8621igk.0!nntp.google.com!h15no2372371igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.53.3; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.53.3 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 03:19:08 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212615 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:104899 Archived-At: 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 ]