<joke> I take offense at that, impunging the name of my good Nintendo. </joke>
-Richard Holden -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Bowman Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [uug] .emacs (windows) Setting %home% did the trick, thanks a lot. By the way, I dual boot Linux and Windows, though admittedly windows is primarily for Generals and other such time wasters, I'll have to adopt the wintendo thing too. alias windows=wintendo >From: Andrew Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [uug] .emacs (windows) >Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:03:39 -0700 > >Hmm, I'm pretty sure that the dia win32 installer messes with the >variable >I mentioned. I really would try unsetting the %HOME% variable. I could be >wrong of course, but the fact that you installed dia leads me to think I >might be right. > >Another way to test my theory would be to manually set the %HOME% >variable >at a command prompt to a directory that has a .emacs file in it. > >Again, I really could be wrong, but I think it's worth testing. > >Of course the best solution is to use Linux. You can still get >WordPerfect >8 for Linux for free. I had my wife using WordPerfect on Linux for around 6 >months. The only thing I had to teach her was to unmount the floppy before >ejecting it. She didn't seem to mind, "I don't see what the problem is, it >all looks the same to me." That was a while back on Caldera OpenLinux >eDesktop. That was a great system. Quietest box i've ever owned too. ><sigh/> > >I guess you probably can't play Generals on Linux though. That's why my >brother calls his Windows box his "Wintendo." > >Ryan Bowman wrote: >> >>I've recently installed dia, dia2code, C&C Generals, mozilla, >>WordPerfect >>office 2000, and probably a couple of other things. >>However, I've deleted the .emacs file in the emacs/bin directory, and when >>I save the options it writes a new one there, but it still doesn't seem to >>read/load it. >> >> >> >> >> >>>From: Andrew Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Subject: Re: [uug] .emacs (windows) >>>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:34:28 -0700 >>> >>>Just a thought, but what else have you installed recently? The reason >>>I >>>ask is that I think emacs tries to store .emacs in your $HOME (%HOME%) >>>directory, which some other program may have recently set for you. >>> >>>Ryan Bowman wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>I have been using emacs under windows for many months and things >>>>have >>>>been fine up until a couple of weeks ago. It stopped reading the .emacs >>>>file. If I delete it it will write a new one when I set the options I >>>>want, but it won't remember them when I restart emacs. Also, if I don't >>>>delete the .emacs when I try to save the options it says 'Saving >>>>settings from "emacs -q" would overwrite existing customizations'. Does >>>>anyone know why it won't load the .emacs file anymore? >>>>Thanks. >>>> >>>>_________________________________________________________________ >>>>MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* >>>>http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus >>>> >>>> >>>>____________________ >>>>BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ >>>>___________________________________________________________________ >>>>List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >>> >>> >>> >>>____________________ >>>BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ >>>___________________________________________________________________ >>>List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >> >> >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. >>http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail >> >> >>____________________ >>BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ >>___________________________________________________________________ >>List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > >____________________ >BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ >___________________________________________________________________ >List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
