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Re: Where to put .emacs in Windows?


From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Where to put .emacs in Windows?
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:51:44 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.hr> writes:

> I'm sorry if there's a valid RTFM answer, but I did try to search the
> manual for this one... and didn't find the answer. Anyway, I
> downloaded Emacs for Windows and now I want to put my .emacs file
> somewhere where emacs.exe will see it and parse it. Now, where would
> that be?

Exactly at the same place as on any other platform.  From the point of
view of emacs, of course.  Just C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET

Now, the actual place where emacs goes when you specify ~/ may be
known with: C-x C-f ~/ RET

Try: M-: (info "(emacs)Windows HOME") RET

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