From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11767: 24.1.50; feature request: being able to specify init.d path Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:45:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83oboab0q6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hau2qj5f.fsf@googlemail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340459187 14828 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2012 13:46:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11767@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ivan Kanis Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 23 15:46:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SiQfQ-0002VM-RG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:46:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiQfQ-0006KV-TG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:46:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiQfO-0006KP-A0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiQfL-0006pq-90 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44200) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiQfL-0006pa-5h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SiQiw-0003uL-Fc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:50:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11767 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11767-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11767.134045937814979 (code B ref 11767); Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11767) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Jun 2012 13:49:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53746 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SiQiX-0003tX-W5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:49:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:51190) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SiQiV-0003tO-50 for 11767@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M6200100OU2AC00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 11767@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:45:49 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M620017POWD6C80@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:45:49 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87hau2qj5f.fsf@googlemail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:61214 Archived-At: > From: Ivan Kanis > Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:58:52 +0200 > > I am currently juggling with three versions of emacs. Since compiled > files differs between versions I would like to be able to pass the > init.d path as an argument. It would be a new argument. I am thinking of > something like this: > > emacs --init-path=/home/ivan/.emacs.d/bzr > > or > > emacs --init-path=/home/ivan/.emacs.d/24.1 > > or > > emacs --init-path=/home/ivan/.emacs.d/23 > > Well you get the idea. Since some of the different files are preloaded, and others depend on features implemented in C, the above seems like it will be prone to subtle problems and bugs due to mismatch between the Emacs binary and the rest of Lisp files. Am I missing something?