Re: Where to put .emacs in Windows?

[Nikola Skoric]

Dana Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:14:38 +0300, 
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> kaze:
>> From: Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.hr>
>> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:54:49 +0000 (UTC)
>> 
>> I'm sorry if there's a valid RTFM answer, but I did try to search the
>> manual for this one... and didn't find the answer. Anyway, I
>> downloaded Emacs for Windows and now I want to put my .emacs file
>> somewhere where emacs.exe will see it and parse it. Now, where would
>> that be?
>
> Could you please tell how did you search?  If you used the `i'
> index-search command, which strings did you try with it?

 I searched documentation and I googled for string "windows .emacs".

> This information certainly is in the manual (see the node "Find Init"
> which has a cross-reference to where the HOME variable is described),
> so if you didn't find it, we probably need to improve the indexing in
> the manual, or something else.

No need to improve anything but my imagination. I just didn't connect
the fact that .emacs is in my HOME dir and that Windows too have HOME.

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