Re: [Mingw-msys] .emacs at c:\ and ~/

[Daniel C. B. <db...@to...>]

On 6/26/07, David Kastrup <da...@gn...> wrote:
> "Daniel C. Bastos" <db...@to...>
> writes:
>
> > I currently keep my .emacs in c:\ and in ~/ in msys. I tried putting it
> > in c:\emacs and in c:\emacs\bin, but emacs seems to ignore them there.
> >
> > The manual says
> >
> > The Init File, `~/.emacs'
> > =========================
> >
> >   When Emacs is started, it normally loads a Lisp program from the file
> > `.emacs' or `.emacs.el' in your home directory.  We call this file your
> > "init file" because it specifies how to initialize Emacs for you.  You
> > can use the command line switch `-q' to prevent loading your init file,
> > and `-u' (or `--user') to specify a different user's init file (*note
> > Entering Emacs::).
> >
> > But I couldn't get -u or --user to work. I tried
> >
> > %emacs -u /c/emacs/.emacs
> > %emacs --user /c/emacs/.emacs
> > %emacs -u 'c:\emacs\.emacs'
> > %emacs --user 'c:\emacs\.emacs'
>
> Do you actually have a user called /c/emacs/.emacs?  I find that
> unlikely.

I just noticed the proper usage of --user by looking at `emacs --help`,
but I couldn't tell that by the text in the info page (above). It
mentions a ``user's init file'' so I thought of giving it a path to a
user's init file, however strange the flag --user would've been for
that.

> > If I can get this flag to work, then my problem is solved. What I
> > currently do is use a script that copies the .emacs from /c/ to ~/
> > before it loads emacs from the shell. But how do you guys keep your
> > .emacs in one place?
> >
> > I need it in both places because emacs reads c:\.emacs when I call
> > it from a Windows hotkey, and it reads ~/.emacs when called from
> > msys.
>
> How about actually setting the HOME variable in your system?

That worked a few days ago after someone suggesting the same.