From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bockg=E5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: running emacs on a usb disk Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 02:17:38 +0200 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093825526 13546 80.91.224.253 (30 Aug 2004 00:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 02:25:20 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 1C1Zz6-0001Qr-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 02:25:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1a3t-0007pp-7U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!dd.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ancalime.dd.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ntaq8QjHulp1L6yBHMwg30K2+BQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125018 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:20368 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20368 Bill Kranec writes: > I am a kind of new emacs user, and I have been experimenting with > trying to run emacs standalone from a USB flash drive on Windows XP. > 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:\. I > have tried reading through the user manual and some online > resources, but I didn't see anything that I thought directly applied > to this. Read about "site-start.el" and "default.el" here: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Init-File.html -- Johan Bockgård