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Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows
From: |
Javier |
Subject: |
Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:52:41 +0000 (UTC) |
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tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.18.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)) |
smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote:
> The issue is that I am not loading my .emacs file
>
> I have just installed version 24.5.1 on my Windows 7 (running within
> Parallels on a Mac).
> I currently have the same configuration on another machine, which I have been
> using for several years, and currently works fine.
>
> My home environment variable is Z:\ within emacs, I can determine that this
> is what emacs believes is home (getenv "home") evaluates to z:\\.
>
> Emacs knows the correct location of my user initialization file:
>
> user-init-file is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is "z:/.emacs"
There may be some problem with the windows filesystem in the Mac.
Try calling the init file _emacs instead of .emacs
(info "(emacs) MS-DOS File Names")
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/MS_002dDOS-File-Names.html
Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7), Noam Postavsky, 2015/12/30
Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7), smits . gerard . j, 2015/12/30