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: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:03:17 -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 1374357825 16826 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2013 22:03:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:03:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 21 00:03:46 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 1V0fFi-0006mx-GY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:03:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fFh-00067a-W3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:03:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46075) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fFW-00067H-7f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fFT-0001Q9-4z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53558) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fFS-0001Px-UL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:03:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fFP-0006ge-75 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:03:27 +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 ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:03:27 +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 ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:03:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 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:92278 Archived-At: I am on Windows 7, emacs works, HOME works, and I did not touch the registry. On 7/14/2013 11:37 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > A read through of the emacs-windows.faq file states that HOME works, but > windows 7 at least isn't set up for emacs to find its .emacs file and some > registry key editing is needed. > >