.erlang file on windows

[Luke Gorrie]

Sean Hinde <Sean.Hinde@REDACTED> writes:

> I guess you need to get a decent editor for windows which allows you to call
> files by the name you give them - I use XEmacs for NT on my laptop.
> www.xemacs.org
> 
> I'm sure I read somewhere that emacs provides an alternative filename for
> its .emacs file for MS machines but I can't find the reference - either way
> it would be a friendly thing for Erlang/OTP

I think you could achieve this manually with something like:

  erl -s file eval <path to .erlang-like file>

.. but I don't know how you'd write the path name on windows.

-Luke