Re: using Emacs on Win32 systems for Swarm development

[Barry McMullin]

Doug Donalson wrote:
> Given that, I have tried everything, and I can't get emacs to load
> _emacs.  I have set HOME in the emacs.bat.  I have put the damn file
> everywhere the stupid program might look.  c:\; \windows; \windows\system
> \Swarm; \Swarm\emacs etc etc etc...

Are you running on '95 or NT?  I have *never* been able
to make this work on '95.  The problem is mentioned in the
ntemacs FAQ somewhere, but with no fix.  I just kludge it
by using a bash alias to invoke emacs:

  alias emacs="runemacs --load=c:$HOME/.emacs -g 80x30"

(Actually, I generally find "~" will not work within
emacs at all; that is, it points at the dir emacs was
invoked in rather than $HOME; the problem with ~/.emacs
seems to be just a special case of this...)

Cheers,

- Barry.

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