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From: mende@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: getting sys$login:.emacs loaded
Message-ID: <1145@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 22:26:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: aramis.1145
Posted: Mon Jul 27 22:26:01 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 01:18:52 EDT
References: <683@julian.UWO.CDN>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: vms init file .emacs
To: peter@julian.UUCP


In article <683@julian.UWO.CDN| peter@julian.UUCP writes:
| I was trying to set up some keyboard re-mappings for version 17.VMS4 of
| GNUEMACS on our VMS system.  I read the instructions and created a file
| named sys$login:.emacs with the appropriate lisp code in it.  It never gets
| loaded.  If I load the file manually it works fine except that even when my
| default directory is sys$login I still have to specify the whole name.  
| Can someone help me with this
| probably trivial problem?

   I dont know your problem, but I have my emacs init file in my home
directory and it is called .emacs (yes... VMS hates a empty file name
and just a extension).  What version of emacs are you using???  I have
seen the problem with some logical root trees (have not done enough
work to define the problem totaly) and I have seen that it will not
automaticly complete directory names (remember that directorys are not
normal files ( there is no file foo:[dir.subdirectory ... the brackets
dont mach)).  The other problem (which may been a feature) I have seen
is that emacs UPPERCASSES file and buffer names.
   This is in GNUemacs 18.47

				Bob
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