Re: running emacs on a usb disk

[Kai Grossjohann]

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.

Emacs reads default.el and site-start.el, too.  You could put your
config in those files.  They are loaded from load-path.

Kai