Re: How do you create a .emacs for a pre-compiled version of Emacs 24.3?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:08:26 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:37:46 -0400 (EDT)
> >> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
> >> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >> 
> >> A read through of the emacs-windows.faq file states that HOME works, but 
> >> windows 7 at least isn't set up for emacs to find its .emacs file and some 
> >> registry key editing is needed.
> >
> > That's not true.  Just start Emacs, type "C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET" and
> > you will see that Emacs finds HOME very well on Windows 7.  Unless you
> > are using a very old version of Emacs (the latest is 24.3).
> 
> I assume you are not talking about the environment variable?

Yes, I am.

> When I get a new Windows machine I always immediately set HOME in the
> environment to
> 
>   c:/Users/<usersname>
> 
> so the .emacs file is read from a non-weird place.

You don't have to.  Emacs does that by default (on Windows 7).