I realise this is about a month late, but I'm catching up on the Zope list bit by bit!
being a total EMACS neophyte, I'm not sure what directory to put the '.emacs' file in.
Wherever the HOME environment variable points to. On my Win95 machine, I have set HOME=c:/document in the autoexec.bat file, and I place my .emacs file into that directory. Yes, that's a forward slash, I can't remember if it's emacs or some other Unix-on-Windows thing that needs it that way but it works. Note: on NTEmacs the file is actually named _emacs instead of .emacs. Julian. _______________________________ Julian Melville School of Multimedia & IT, Southern Cross University http://multimedia.scu.edu.au/~jmelvill/ mailto:jmelvill@scu.edu.au Phone +61 2 6659 3327 Fax +61 2 6659 3612 Sometimes simple logic will get you through times of rank ignorance better than simple ignorance will get you through times of rank logic. (Rageboy)