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New to Emacs
From: |
Gian Uberto Lauri |
Subject: |
New to Emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Jan 2004 04:34:54 +0100 |
>>>>> "S" == Stephen <sedelblut@hotmail.com> writes:
S> Hi, I just downloaded Emacs 21.3 precompiled windows version. I
S> want to use it for Java development. An article I am reading shows
S> how to do this, and I have downloaded several .el files. What
S> directory do I put these files in?
Any directory that appears in your load-path variable, see below.
S> Also, the article says to
S> modify my .emacs file. I have not been able to find a .emacs file
S> in my Emacs directory.
Windows version comes with a BAT file and a CMD maybe (I use Windows
only at work and now I'm on holyday). Look at these files, they set a
HOME variable (that cames from Unix $HOME variable containing the home
directory of the user in the file system).
NT and its successors let you set a HOME variable in the My Computer
properties tabbed dialog (usually is a button called Environment or
such).
Emacs directory (Windows precompiled) contains a file with some
registry entries that set the other variables you see in the CMD or
BAT files.
The .emacs file (Windows version of Emacs accepts _emacs also since
Windows could have problems with "dot files" - they are the "hidden"
files in Unix) should reside in that directory.
If my memory isn't wrong if HOME is unset then Emacs uses C:\
Back to the .el files.
If you put them in C:\example then you should put in your .emacs
something like:
(setq load-path (nconc load-path (list "C:/example")))
This LISP statement sets the load-path variable (setq function) with
the result of the function nconc that concatenates any number of lists
(load-path is a list) by altering them. Only the last argument is not
altered, and need not be a list.
Therefore if at startup load-path content is
("c:/emacs/lisp" "c:/emacs/site-lisp")
after that statement it becomes
("c:/emacs/lisp" "c:/emacs/site-lisp" . "c:/example")
The load-path variable acts like Unix $PATH and Windows %PATH
variable.
BTW, be sure that all exe files are in directories listed in your
system PATH :).
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