Re: GNU Emacs under Windows 2000: .emacs file

[Chris McMahan]

Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com> writes:

> On 12 Dec 2002, jaime.suarez@crossmatch.net wrote:
> > I installed the Win2K version of GNU Emacs and
> > it runs fine.  However I cannot find the file
> > .emacs or _emacs.  Where is this file supposed
> > to be?  Do I have to create it?
> 
> Type C-x C-f ~/.emacs
> 
> You are now in that file.  (The point is that Emacs either finds
> a file that exists or makes a buffer that, when saved, will be
> that file)
> 
> > In Windows 2000, what is the equivalent of
> > the UNIX "Home" directory?  
> 
> The HOME environmental variable.

Or failing that, Windows defaults to the c:/ drive.


> -- 
> Galen Boyer

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Hi Carl,

"CarlC" <carlc@snowbd.com> writes:
> On a related subject, what is the name of the variable that stores
> this last search string? I want to be able to save this for each
> file from session.el.

Looking at isearch.el and a bit of testing suggests that the variables
search-ring and regexp-search-ring contain the relevant history of
searches.  These variables are not buffer-local.  They are saved by
desktop.el.

Hope this helps, benny