From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: running emacs on a usb disk Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:14:50 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093811434 31167 80.91.224.253 (29 Aug 2004 20:30:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:30:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 22:30:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C1WJk-0000ML-00 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:30:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1WOX-0000Zt-HV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:35:21 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 'bg&jY[8V'W&:=~6w"|>}#4/T; w~36ei4NNMyKRR.a$n=$|sWFPF1y]a\>6kc\*#GN]UDM| Ywv, vbL^XF1nIp\:F=$Ei2o&mEe:%N~, :3]vtQ~s9u$9izmX$IF@VgGl7/, ^dbuM<3|AO2}.%|%?kZ 2Y=@\U!~cll^=8Z9ihKq%wmUe1Ky(#kl3T'>Qk0Ia3mCBsTk?E(,X Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qzgJbr8nThKIBNACzc9J5wFcfS8= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-ulm.de 1093811403 134.60.10.173 (29 Aug 2004 22:30:03 +0200) Original-Lines: 20 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feed.news.tiscali.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125012 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20362 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20362 On Sun, Aug 29 2004, Bill Kranec wrote: > Is it possible to make emacs load my .emacs file from a relative > path on the USB disk, rather than looking in Windows' PATH or > registry settings? Right now emacs looks for everything in C:\. Setting HOME to f:\some\path should be enough (assuming your .emacs is f:\some\path\.emacs). You can find more info on this in the Gnus FAQ[1], question 3.2 (just read ~/.emacs instead of ~/.gnus there). Bye, Reiner. [1] http://my.gnus.org/faq/ or (info "(gnus)[3.2]") if you have Gnus 5.10 installed. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/