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Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3?
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Vagn Johansen |
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Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3? |
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:08:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) |
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
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