From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Running Emacs from a USB drive
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:23:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vNqdnZpsWq1cfN7bnZ2dnUVZ_tijnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m37irgz85f.fsf@timbral.net>
thorne wrote:
> Hello all. If i want to run my own Emacs on various random MS-Windows
> machines, is it as simple as unpacking a Windows binary distribution
> onto a USB drive or iPod or whatever, and maybe making a site-start.el
> to grok the current drive letter and set that as the home directory?
>
> I am guessing there is more to it than that...?
>
If I understand this aright:
http://at-aka.blogspot.com/2006/06/portable-emacs-22050-on-usb.html
then you will first have to grok the mount point of the flash drive and only
after running emacs from there will the data-directory variable include the
drive letter. If you could somehow arrange to have this drive letter added
to the path then you could have a batch file in the root of the flash drive
run emacs. A kludge would be to add all the letters d:\ ... z:\ to the
global path of the local machine. I don't know whether the site-start.el
undoes the setenv "HOME" when emacs exits.
Ed
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