From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Where is config? Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:33:22 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1176109753.125572.258870@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1176115649.705895.244420@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176148849 30047 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2007 20:00:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:00:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 21:59:58 2007 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 1Hax0R-0005Gm-3d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:46:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hax4G-00070B-SC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hax41-0006rt-PC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hax40-0006hF-2S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hax3z-0006gW-Ux for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:49:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hax08-0003UX-CJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HavtT-0006uY-3L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-248-28.inter.net.il [84.228.248.28]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GLY22457 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:33:22 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <1176115649.705895.244420@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> (soid.exe@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:42531 Archived-At: > From: "Grigory Temchenko" > Date: 9 Apr 2007 03:47:29 -0700 > > I've understood my problem by that link. I haven't permissions to > write on my disk. My home directory for emacs is just 'c:/' and it > can't create a config file there. I've solved it using command > argument '--user='. Caution: this might be subtly different from actually having a .emacs file in the home directory. It is better to set the HOME environment variable to point to a directory to which you do have write access, and store your .emacs file there.