From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Where is .emacs in Linux? Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 16:26:38 GMT Organization: ....little, if any Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241800914 4495 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2009 16:41:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 16:41:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 18:41:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M2T8p-0003mG-Cf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 18:41:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53071 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2T8o-00059y-Sx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 12:41:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe22.iad.POSTED!800a5453!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@WWWSpace.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 16:26:38 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168979 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64245 Archived-At: On 2009-05-08, tirengarfio wrote: > the cuamode i should edit ".emacs" but where is it?? You can create it manually, as Alan suggests, or you can just start up emacs and change an option, like activating wordwrap or highlighting and saving it, which will also create the file in your home directory. nb