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From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: MicroEMACS and its startup file
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Date: 6 Mar 91 11:58:03 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.011251.10615@mccc.edu>
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In article <1991Mar5.011251.10615@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (me) writes:
>Where does M-EMACS look for its startup file?  I've placed it in a
>directory that's in my PATH and in $HOME, but it only reads it when I'm
>in $HOME or in that directory.

Under Unix, MicroEMACS (v3.10 al least) will look for both .emacsrc amd
emacs.hlp in $HOME, $PWD (.emacsrc only), the $PATH directories,
/usr/local/ and /usr/lib, in that order. The last two are defined in a
table in epath.h and are easy to change - if you want to be slightly
more organised about it then you could change /usr/lib to usr/local/lib.
 

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