Re: Newbie question: Where to find emacs stqrtup file on Windows

[Colin S. Miller]

bar tomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I've downloaded emacs22.3-bin-i386.zip from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/
> I've unzipped the archive and searched for either ".emacs.el" ,
> ".emacs" or "_emacs" but have found none of these.
> Where should the startup file be exactly?
> Many thanks.

Bar,
Open the file "~/.emacs.el",
ignore any warning about this file not existing.

~/ on UNIX is the user's home directory.
Emacs on MS-Windows will map this to the correct file.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller
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