Hi,
On my work machine (Windows XP) I do not have write file access to my
root directory. Note that I can create and delete directories, just not
files.
I am trying to use Lispbox and having lots of problems with exiting and
saving from emacs. I think the problem is created because emacs is
trying to write a file to c:/.emacs-places or something related to
this, also SLIME seems to want to save a file in c:/slime-history to
root as well.
Any ideas on how I can change this behaviour?
Sean SCC schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> On my work machine (Windows XP) I do not have write file access to my
> root directory. Note that I can create and delete directories, just not
> files.
>
> I am trying to use Lispbox and having lots of problems with exiting and
> saving from emacs. I think the problem is created because emacs is
> trying to write a file to c:/.emacs-places or something related to
> this, also SLIME seems to want to save a file in c:/slime-history to
> root as well.
>
> Any ideas on how I can change this behaviour?
>
Set the HOME environment variable for yourself to a place you may write
to. To go on with Windows conformance, this would be in your
profile/application data directory, though I prefer to keep all my
unixisms out there.
Note that Lispbox does not save a .emacs file, which you may or may not
like to have. Additionally, if you take a current CVS Emacs 22 (a
complete Windows installer including gnuclient/gnuserv exists) you will
have better integration, better multi-language support, preview
capability for Latex and so on and so on... It may require some work to
get all things done so nicely as in Lispbox, though.
best regards,
-- Markus