From: Peter Tury <peter.tury@nokia.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:25:05 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7irznzsf.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 46305352$0$337$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-26 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-25 4:17 .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25 9:27 ` Peter Tury
2007-04-25 10:33 ` Ismael Valladolid Torres
2007-04-25 11:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.2502.1177499413.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-25 19:35 ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25 20:16 ` Chris McMahan
2007-04-25 21:17 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-26 7:28 ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-04-25 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2529.1177535710.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-26 7:22 ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-26 11:25 ` Peter Tury [this message]
2007-05-03 19:22 ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25 14:35 ` Kai Grossjohann
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