Dire_Wolf Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I know i am a bit stupid. But what's more stupid than my small dose of stupidity is everyone constantly saying "add x to ~/.emacs file". I mean you have a tutorial or tips saying to add something to a certain file. So aren't you failing in helping people with your tutorial/tips if person doesn't know where ~/.emacs file is because you assume that person knows it? My ranting aside, could someone please tell me where to find ~/.emacs file.I want to add abbrevations, i googled a bit but because i don't understand english that well i didn't find any solutions. So where is this cursed file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPM Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 In most *nix based systems, the character '~' is a shortcut to the user's home directory. So, if you go to your home directory and vi .emacs, you'll hop right into it. You can do this by typing "cd ~; vi .emacs" or just typing in "vi ~/.emacs"Files that begin with a '.' are hidden files. They aren't listed unless you "ls -a". The reason no one said specificly that '~' is the home directory is because it's basic, intro class knowledge. If I tell you to go to the /etc/httpd/conf folder, I don't need to tell you to "cd /etc/httpd/conf" because you should know how to do it already. ~M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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