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Re: [h-e-w] Emacs not finding the ".emacs" file
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Richard M. Heiberger |
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Re: [h-e-w] Emacs not finding the ".emacs" file |
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:23:06 -0400 |
Stephen Leake
> Emacs looks for .emacs in $HOME. You need to define the HOME
> environment variable in the system control panel; set it to c:\Emacs
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No, please don't do that. The environment variable HOME is you. It is not
the emacs program or any other system value.
I use
HOME=c:\HOME\rmh
Set this value in the
control panel/system/advance/environment variables/user variables
for W2000 and XP.
set it in autoexec.bat for older windows systems.