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


From: sebastianeappen
Subject: Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3?
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:09:48 -0700 (PDT)
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On Saturday, July 13, 2013 9:00:21 PM UTC-5, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> sebastianeappen@gmail.com writes:
> 
> 
> 
> > I unpacked a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3 on my Windows machine,
> 
> > but I have no idea on where to create a .emacs for customizing
> 
> > Emacs. I saw on the Find Init GNU Emacs manpage that the HOME
> 
> > environment variable is where Emacs tries to find the .emacs file, but
> 
> > I'm pretty sure that only works on GNU/Linux and/or Mac OS X, not
> 
> > Windows. Can someone help me with this issue?
> 
> 
> 
> Type in emacs: C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET ;; This is my .emacs RET C-x C-s
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> __Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
> 
> A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.  
> 
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> 
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Thanks for the advice. I thought typing ~/ in C-x C-f wouldn't work on Windows, 
only on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X.


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