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Re: Can't find .emacs file on Cygwin Emacs
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Kai Grossjohann |
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Re: Can't find .emacs file on Cygwin Emacs |
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Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:40:44 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
Apokrif <apokrif1@yahoo.com> writes:
> I've got an Emacs for Windows 98 which uses C:\_emacs ("_", not ".").
Emacs for Windows reads ~/.emacs if present, else it looks for
~/_emacs.
Whoever uses Emacs on a non-DOS system should try C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET
(with tilde and a forward slash). The file you're then looking at is
your .emacs file -- maybe it is new, and thus empty.
The DOSish eight-dot-three convention does not allow .emacs as a file
name. AFAIK, DOS is the only system where .emacs is not called
.emacs.
Kai