Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3?

[Vagn Johansen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:46 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> 
>> A read through of the emacs-windows.faq file states that HOME works, but 
>> windows 7 at least isn't set up for emacs to find its .emacs file and some 
>> registry key editing is needed.
>
> That's not true.  Just start Emacs, type "C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET" and
> you will see that Emacs finds HOME very well on Windows 7.  Unless you
> are using a very old version of Emacs (the latest is 24.3).

I assume you are not talking about the environment variable?

When I get a new Windows machine I always immediately set HOME in the
environment to

  c:/Users/<usersname>

so the .emacs file is read from a non-weird place.

-- 
Vagn Johansen