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Re: running emacs on a usb disk


From: Johan Bockgård
Subject: Re: running emacs on a usb disk
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 02:17:38 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v)

Bill Kranec <billk@fastmail.fm> 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


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