> From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac...@gnu.org > [mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac...@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Drew Adams > Sent: Monday 09 March 2009 7:20 am > To: 'Tomas Valusek'; help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Newbie - initial config ... > Just use `C-x C-f _emacs' to visit a new, empty file buffer named > `_emacs', then > `C-x C-s' to save the file (edit the directory part of the file name to > put it in your home directory).
Emacs should expand ~ to whatever it regards as your home directory, so if you do `C-x C-f ~/_emacs' you should be guaranteed to edit the file _emacs in the right directory. (You can also use .emacs instead of _emacs, which I prefer, although it's less Windows-friendly.) Francis
