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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:08:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhcr4xiu0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <462fad69$0$322$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> (message from Cecil Westerhof on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:35:05 +0200)

> 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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-25 21:08 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 [this message]
     [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
2007-05-03 19:22               ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-04-25 14:35 ` Kai Grossjohann

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