Re: .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs

[Peter Tury <peter.tury@nokia.com>]

Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> From: Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl>
>>> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:35:05 +0200
>>> 
>>> It is Emacs 22. I could take it of from my usb-stick and put it in C
>>> \temp\emacs. (Temp is never cleared -why call it temp then?- so that
>>> works.) But Emacs wants to write to C:\.emacs and that is not allowed. I
>>> but something in C:\temp\emacs and load it with load-library. Not
>>> perfect, but it will not get better I am afraid.
>> 
>> Why can't you have an autorun file on the stick that sets HOME to
>> point to the stick drive?  Then you could have your .emacs on the
>> stick as well.
>
> I prefer not to use an USB-stick for this. I did this only because I had no
> room on the system. I can use C:\temp, so I put everything there. In the
> morning I just give load-library.
> Thanks anyway.

How do you start Emacs? Do you use --load="c:\temp\emacs\dotemacs"?
Maybe you can (and want?) to combine it with --no-init-file or
--quick? See Emacs Invocation in the manual.