Re: Running Emacs from a USB drive

[B. T. Raven]

thorne wrote:
> Hello all.  If i want to run my own Emacs on various random MS-Windows
> machines, is it as simple as unpacking a Windows binary distribution
> onto a USB drive or iPod or whatever, and maybe making a site-start.el
> to grok the current drive letter and set that as the home directory?
>
> I am guessing there is more to it than that...?

If I understand this aright:

http://at-aka.blogspot.com/2006/06/portable-emacs-22050-on-usb.html

then you will first have to grok the mount point of the flash drive and only 
after running emacs from there will the data-directory variable include the 
drive letter. If you could somehow arrange to have this drive letter added 
to the path then you could have a batch file in the root of the flash drive 
run emacs. A kludge would be to add all the letters d:\ ... z:\ to the 
global path of the local machine. I don't know whether the site-start.el 
undoes the setenv "HOME" when emacs exits.

Ed