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Re: emacs-home variable for Windows
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Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: emacs-home variable for Windows |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:04:40 +0200 |
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:00 AM, ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
>
> I carry a USB stick to the job. It's got emacs installed on it and
> there's a link on my desktop that I click (after inserting the stick)
> and emacs fires up. It's nice. I use it every day. With the paucity
> of decent editors from Windows, I *need* it.
>
> There's a couple minor hassles though that I'd like to dispense with.
> One is that I don't know a way to tell emacs what the HOME directory is.
> In the past I've just gone into the registry and change some variable
> there. I don't remember where that is or how to do it though. Besides,
> I prefer to have the variable defined in my .emacs (which is at the
> top-level directory on the USB stick). (After emacs loads, I do "M-x
> loadfile RETURN e:/.emacs" and that little task loads up the rest of the
> stuff emacs needs to know. But I don't know how tell emacs to make e:/
> the home directory.
There is a library usb-setup.el in Emacs+EmacsW32 for this.