Where to put .emacs in Windows?

Where to put .emacs in Windows?

[Nikola Skoric]

I'm sorry if there's a valid RTFM answer, but I did try to search the
manual for this one... and didn't find the answer. Anyway, I
downloaded Emacs for Windows and now I want to put my .emacs file
somewhere where emacs.exe will see it and parse it. Now, where would
that be?

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I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
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Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams"

Re: Where to put .emacs in Windows?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.hr> writes:

> I'm sorry if there's a valid RTFM answer, but I did try to search the
> manual for this one... and didn't find the answer. Anyway, I
> downloaded Emacs for Windows and now I want to put my .emacs file
> somewhere where emacs.exe will see it and parse it. Now, where would
> that be?

Exactly at the same place as on any other platform.  From the point of
view of emacs, of course.  Just C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET

Now, the actual place where emacs goes when you specify ~/ may be
known with: C-x C-f ~/ RET

Try: M-: (info "(emacs)Windows HOME") RET

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Re: Where to put .emacs in Windows?

[rustom]

On Apr 21, 4:51 am, Pascal Bourguignon <p...@informatimago.com> wrote:
> Nikola Skoric <nick-n...@net4u.hr> writes:
> > I'm sorry if there's a valid RTFM answer, but I did try to search the
> > manual for this one... and didn't find the answer. Anyway, I
> > downloaded Emacs for Windows and now I want to put my .emacs file
> > somewhere where emacs.exe will see it and parse it. Now, where would
> > that be?
>
> Exactly at the same place as on any other platform.  From the point of
> view of emacs, of course.  Just C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET

It may be worth checking whether your HOME is set. And for an old
unixer that can be quite strange: Its something like this (not sure
all details are correct)
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment variables

Re: Where to put .emacs in Windows?

[Nikola Skoric]

Dana Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:51:44 +0200, 
Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> kaze:
> Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.hr> writes:
>
>> I'm sorry if there's a valid RTFM answer, but I did try to search the
>> manual for this one... and didn't find the answer. Anyway, I
>> downloaded Emacs for Windows and now I want to put my .emacs file
>> somewhere where emacs.exe will see it and parse it. Now, where would
>> that be?
>
> Exactly at the same place as on any other platform.  From the point of
> view of emacs, of course.  Just C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET

Of course. Thanks for pointing the obvious!

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"Now the storm has passed over me
I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams
Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams"

Re: Where to put .emacs in Windows?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.hr>
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:54:49 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> I'm sorry if there's a valid RTFM answer, but I did try to search the
> manual for this one... and didn't find the answer. Anyway, I
> downloaded Emacs for Windows and now I want to put my .emacs file
> somewhere where emacs.exe will see it and parse it. Now, where would
> that be?

Could you please tell how did you search?  If you used the `i'
index-search command, which strings did you try with it?

This information certainly is in the manual (see the node "Find Init"
which has a cross-reference to where the HOME variable is described),
so if you didn't find it, we probably need to improve the indexing in
the manual, or something else.

TIA

Re: Where to put .emacs in Windows?

[Nikola Skoric]

Dana Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:14:38 +0300, 
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> kaze:
>> From: Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.hr>
>> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:54:49 +0000 (UTC)
>> 
>> I'm sorry if there's a valid RTFM answer, but I did try to search the
>> manual for this one... and didn't find the answer. Anyway, I
>> downloaded Emacs for Windows and now I want to put my .emacs file
>> somewhere where emacs.exe will see it and parse it. Now, where would
>> that be?
>
> Could you please tell how did you search?  If you used the `i'
> index-search command, which strings did you try with it?

 I searched documentation and I googled for string "windows .emacs".

> This information certainly is in the manual (see the node "Find Init"
> which has a cross-reference to where the HOME variable is described),
> so if you didn't find it, we probably need to improve the indexing in
> the manual, or something else.

No need to improve anything but my imagination. I just didn't connect
the fact that .emacs is in my HOME dir and that Windows too have HOME.

-- 
"Now the storm has passed over me
I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams
Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams"

Re: Where to put .emacs in Windows?

[Sergei]

On Apr 21, 3:17 pm, Nikola Skoric <nick-n...@net4u.hr> wrote:

[...]

> No need to improve anything but my imagination. I just didn't connect
> the fact that .emacs is in my HOME dir and that Windows too have HOME.

It is not obvious, where you would like to point your %HOME% to.  It
may be "C:\Documents and Settings\your_account\Application Data" (as
EmacsNT likes it), or c:\cywin\home\your_account (as cygwin prefers
it).  Probably you would like emacs settngs be consistent with
cygwin's.

--
Sergio