From: Jim Menard Date: 2005-08-11T04:32:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Need some help setting up ruby mode francisrammeloo@hotmail.com wrote: > I can find my emacs file. Am I supposed to create it myself? I'm using > Windows XP and GNU Emacs 21.3.1. > > I set the environment variable HOME to point to my home directory, then I created the file .emacs in that directory. If you don't use HOME, then I think you need to put .emacs in the emacs-XX.Y directory itself. Jim -- Jim Menard, jimm@io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm "I am sure that like Java, [C#] will be a 'no pointer' language, where the most common runtime error will be a 'NULL pointer exception'." -- Jerry Kott, in comp.lang.smalltalk