From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miguel Frasson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: running emacs on a usb disk Date: 30 Aug 2004 12:22:25 +0200 Organization: Universiteit Leiden Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040829194554.54047C15193@frontend1.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093861627 18398 80.91.224.253 (30 Aug 2004 10:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 12:26:58 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C1jNJ-0000PB-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:26:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1jS8-0001g8-A3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:31:56 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!info4.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.glorb.com!news.zanker.org!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeeder.wxs.nl!news3.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!surfnet.nl!leidenuniv.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84e5e602.math.leidenuniv.nl Original-X-Trace: mercury.leidenuniv.nl 1093861345 8651 132.229.230.2 (30 Aug 2004 10:22:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@mercury.leidenuniv.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:22:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125024 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20374 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20374 Bill Kranec writes: > Thanks for the useful info and links, but I had something a little bit > different in mind. The fixes you suggested will work on my personal > computer, but what I would like is to be able to plug the usb disk into > any computer, and launch emacs with my settings without changing > anything on that computer. (In other words, run emacs entirely from the > removeable drive.) Is this even possible? Hi Try to write a bat file that call emacs with some setting that does what you want (you can store that on the usb device), and them call that when you plug your usb device. Miguel -- Miguel Vinicius Santini Frasson http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~frasson