Re: Location of .emacs in Windows 7

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-01-17, at 01:38, Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Using C-x C-f I can read in, edit and store .emacs in ~/.emacs . 
> However, when I search for the file, I cannot find it.

Try

C-h v user-init-file

or

M-: (find-file user-init-file)

> I was also trying to store an org file in ~/org-mode/work.org .  It 
> seemed sometimes that it would read those files from ~/org-mode/work.org 
> and write them to c:/Users/<User>/AppData/Roaming/org-mode/work.org . 
> And I could not find that file/path either.

There is also the variable abbreviated-home-dir, but I'm not sure how it
works.

> I have taken to storing the org files in 
> C:/Users/<User>/Desktop/org-file/work.org .  It works but I would rather 
> use ~/org-mode for the directory.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks, Steve

Hth,

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