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RE: [h-e-w] .emacs doesn't execute
From: |
Mike Campbell |
Subject: |
RE: [h-e-w] .emacs doesn't execute |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:09:57 -0400 |
If his
problem is that emacs isn't reading his .emacs, then setting HOME *IN* his
.emacs won't help, since it's not being read in the first
place.
Anyway, I'm
not sure what OS you're using, but if it's Windows NT, 2K, or XP, then you go
into the Settings->Control Panel->System, and dig around in there until
you find the "Environment Variables" tab. (It might be hidden behind an
"Advanced setting" button.)
Once you
find that, either find the "HOME" entry, see where it points and put your .emacs
file there, *OR* change or add the entry to point to C:\ or D:\, or wherever
you're comfortable it being. Then put the .emacs where you set HOME to
be.
In a message dated 4/23/2003 3:58:06 PM Eastern
Daylight Time, address@hidden writes:
I tried that.
SET HOME=d:\Emacs
Didn't
help.
should it be
SET HOME=D:\Emacs\
No, it
shouldn't. It's not clear to me where you're setting the variable, but
..
C-x C-f $HOME followed by a
space character should tell you what emacs thinks the HOME variable
is.
Regardless, you can put your .emacs file in ~/.emacs
So if
you can't figure out how to set HOME, and assuming that your init file is in
D:\emacs\.emacs , then
C-x C-f D:\emacs\.emacs
C-x C-w ~/.emacs
then
restart emacs
If that doesn't work something is seriously wrong with
your setup.