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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 15:07:27 GMT
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In article <2461@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (me) writes:
>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.

CORRECTION: it's $HOME that it won't look for emacs.hlp in.

Getting back to the original question, if it's an unhacked version of
MicroEMACS, and your HOME environment variable is set properly, and the
file's called .emacsrc, then there's no excuse for MicroEMACS not
finding it.
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