Re: .emacs file

[Tom Roche]

"Lucy Zhang" <lucyz@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Sun, 2 Dec 2001 02:35:20
> I just downloaded emacs 21.1 on to my Sun Solaris machine. It is now
> sitting in my home/emacs-21.1 directory. Now I need to add some code
> to the .emacs file in order to get emacs working in maxima mode. My
> question is where should i put the .emacs file so emacs will see it.

You should put .emacs, or a link to it, in the directory pointed to by
your HOME environment variable. 

You might find the following site useful:

http://www.dotemacs.de/
> Welcome to the very unofficial dotemacs home

> What you will find here:

>  -  links to basic information about customizing emacs

>  -  a collection of Emacs dotfiles contributed to this site

>  -  a collection of links to Emacs dotfiles on the web

>  -  a few articles about special topics concerning customization

HTH, Tom_Roche@ncsu.edu