Re: emacs-home variable for Windows

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:00 AM, ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
>
> I carry a USB stick to the job.  It's got emacs installed on it and
> there's a link on my desktop that I click (after inserting the stick)
> and emacs fires up.  It's nice.  I use it every day.  With the paucity
> of decent editors from Windows, I *need* it.
>
> There's a couple minor hassles though that I'd like to dispense with.
> One is that I don't know a way to tell emacs what the HOME directory is.
>  In the past I've just gone into the registry and change some variable
> there.  I don't remember where that is or how to do it though.  Besides,
> I prefer to have the variable defined in my .emacs (which is at the
> top-level directory on the USB stick).  (After emacs loads, I do "M-x
> loadfile RETURN e:/.emacs" and that little task loads up the rest of the
> stuff emacs needs to know.  But I don't know how tell emacs to make e:/
> the home directory.


There is a library usb-setup.el in Emacs+EmacsW32 for this.