Re: GNU Emacs under Windows 2000: .emacs file

[Timur Aydin <tayd@bicom-inc.com>]

Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com> writes:

> On 12 Dec 2002, jaime.suarez@crossmatch.net wrote:
> > I installed the Win2K version of GNU Emacs and
> > it runs fine.  However I cannot find the file
> > .emacs or _emacs.  Where is this file supposed
> > to be?  Do I have to create it?
> 
> Type C-x C-f ~/.emacs
> 
> You are now in that file.  (The point is that Emacs either finds
> a file that exists or makes a buffer that, when saved, will be
> that file)
> 
> > In Windows 2000, what is the equivalent of
> > the UNIX "Home" directory?  
> 
> The HOME environmental variable.
> 

I don't know about the HOME environment variable, but on my system I
have HOMEDRIVE=C: and HOMEPATH=\cygwin\home\tayd.

The .emacs file is in c:\cygwin\home\tayd

--
Timur.