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Re: .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: .emacs in the Windows version of Emacs
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:17:42 +0200
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Chris McMahan wrote:
Is it possible to set your home directory to the thumbdrive so emacs
will look there for the init file?

I am not quite sure, but it looks to me from the docs that you can do this on MS Windows (but not other systems) by setting the environmental variable HOME.

Be aware though that other programs may use HOME too.





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