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Somehow .dotfiles work just fine under Windows :). As such they are somehow more "portable" Emacs saves them under %USERPROFILE% - I have in there - .alice, .a

by malkia 14y ago

Somehow .dotfiles work just fine under Windows :). As such they are somehow more "portable" Emacs saves them under %USERPROFILE% - I have in there - .alice, .android, .easyhg, .eclipse, .gstreamer-0.10, .lighttable, .m2, .matplotlib, .... .VirtualBox, .zenmap Also in "Application Data" - .emacs.d, .mc, .subversion My point is - this system works somehow even under non-unixy systems. Because it's simple.

Dylan16807 14y ago
%APPDATA% is as simple as home but much better on the clutter front.
- DeepDuh 14y ago
  True. I actually kinda like the Windows directory structure since Vista. If only the application devs would also follow the standard (hence the whole My Documents mess).
strictfp 14y ago
It didn't use to work. I think it was added for XP SP2 or so, probably due to the popularity of manu *nix ports like Emacs.
- pjmlp 14y ago
  It always did, at least in NTFS. What did not, and still does not, is to create them via Windows Explorer. You can create them just fine from the command line, or via Windows APIs.
  - eropple 14y ago
    You can create them in Windows Explorer with a little trick: type the name with a trailing dot. Entering ".vimrc." will save as ".vimrc", no trailing dot.
    - pjmlp 14y ago
      Great! I was not aware of it.
jasomill 14y ago
Incidentally, Emacs will use %UserProfile%\.emacs.d if you set %HOME% to %UserProfile%, which, as a UNIX user, I personally prefer for consistency. While not Emacs-specific, another trick I've found useful is that, on 64-bit Windows, you can open %SystemRoot%\System32\somefile in 32-bit Emacs iff you refer to it as %SystemRoot%\sysnative\somefile (the original path yields %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\somefile).