Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[John Mastro]

<smits.gerard.j@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not familiar with auto-show.el.  I found an example on line and on a guess 
> put in my home directory--obviously not the correct place, as did not help.
>
> Do you know where it goes?

The typical thing, I think, would be to put it in z:\\site-lisp and then
add a line like this to your .emacs:

    (add-to-list 'load-path "z:/site-lisp")

Which adds that directory to the list of places Emacs will look for Lisp
libraries.

You can use whatever directory you like, provided you have an
appropriate (add-to-list 'load-path ...) in your .emacs before the
library in question is required.

-- 
john