From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3? Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:59:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373849993 29380 80.91.229.3 (15 Jul 2013 00:59:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:59:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 15 02:59:53 2013 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 1UyX8q-0006ye-B1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 02:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyX8p-0001VQ-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51925) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyX8f-0001VK-Ql for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:59:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyX8e-00040y-Sm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41504) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyX8e-00040m-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UyX8d-0006tl-5P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 02:59:39 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net ([75.17.109.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 02:59:39 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 02:59:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:92123 Archived-At: HOME definitely works on Windows. On 7/13/2013 9:54 PM, sebastianeappen@gmail.com wrote: > I saw on the Find Init GNU Emacs manpage that the > HOME environment variable is where Emacs tries to find the .emacs > file, but I'm pretty sure that only works on GNU/Linux and/or Mac OS > X, not Windows. Can someone help me with this issue? >