From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: init file help Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 23:07:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <50206475-b3f7-47c2-a791-374c8ae4f8dd@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> <9cf2660d-1846-4979-93de-ca36f201d282@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209789672 16638 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2008 04:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 04:41:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 06:41:46 2008 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 1Js9ZC-00075B-1a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 06:41:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Js9YV-0003xD-0l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 00:41:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 23:06:49 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tkDnNFN5h2p5WyeTVyf7gklETh8= Original-Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.226.105.164 Original-X-Trace: sv3-s0mK0YJbLa96WyV4W1ZaIsCj2cx7of2Y8Rt0rcz9dCQfks+d/Kbdz6o3NqNqDeSjIcnL+FzYOmmfld0!hvyR3bdfnCE0i5LCZBmsUhuVj5WCleBIvLhr3UK1hieBKVaI8tBrAEtcGwEZs3m5OKMuz18krGIN!IyuudC0= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158363 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:53727 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Allan >> Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 20:51:09 -0500 >> >> `_emacs' will work but if you want to create `.emacs' you have to >> enclose the file name in double quotation marks when saving the file >> on Windows. > > No, that's not true. Emacs does NOT require quotes for .emacs. Only > the Windows explorer does. Thanks, I did not know that. But as you mention, Notepad does require it. -- Allan