From: Javier <nospam@nospam.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:52:41 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n5r49p$p5l$2@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b37f99e4-9f68-4bdf-8180-851b94e0de0e@googlegroups.com
smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote:
> The issue is that I am not loading my .emacs file
>
> I have just installed version 24.5.1 on my Windows 7 (running within Parallels on a Mac).
> I currently have the same configuration on another machine, which I have been using for several years, and currently works fine.
>
> My home environment variable is Z:\ within emacs, I can determine that this is what emacs believes is home (getenv "home") evaluates to z:\\.
>
> Emacs knows the correct location of my user initialization file:
>
> user-init-file is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is "z:/.emacs"
There may be some problem with the windows filesystem in the Mac.
Try calling the init file _emacs instead of .emacs
(info "(emacs) MS-DOS File Names")
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/MS_002dDOS-File-Names.html
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 21:49 Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) smits.gerard.j
2015-12-28 10:52 ` Javier [this message]
2015-12-30 6:15 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-30 22:30 ` B. T. Raven
2015-12-31 0:16 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-31 1:22 ` Charles Millar
2015-12-31 3:06 ` John Mastro
[not found] ` <mailman.1396.1451524964.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 23:20 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-30 16:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-12-30 18:19 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-31 0:50 ` John Mastro
2016-01-07 0:06 ` smits.gerard.j
2016-01-07 15:47 ` B. T. Raven
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