From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Sebastián Monía" <sebastian@sebasmonia.com>
Cc: 73728@debbugs.gnu.org, jonas@grszkth.fr
Subject: bug#73728: 29.3; Specifing an --alternate-editor for emacscleintw.exe with custom --init-directory does not work on Windows
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:12:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a5fb25fw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <thqnjzefg7q6.fsf@sebasmonia.com> (message from Sebastián Monía on Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:58:57 -0400)
> From: Sebastián Monía <sebastian@sebasmonia.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 73728@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:58:57 -0400
>
>
> Jonas Großekathöfer <jonas@grszkth.fr> writes:
> > Quality of life improvement: I have my configs online in a git-repo. I manage the dotfiles on my Linux machine with stow. On my Windows machine I want
> > Emacs to follow that structure. As such I want to link to the config via --init-directory, so that I can place the Dotfiles-Folder where ever I want. However,
> > I can't place the Dotfiles folder so, that the ".emacs.d/"-folder ends up under the parent "~/" as well.
>
> > I am open to suggestions if I am missing the super obvious solution here. (:
>
> I am using a "junction" to link ~/.emacs.d to the directory where I
> cloned my Emacs config. I don't know if that helps.
> Unlike symlinks, junctions don't need admin rights.
Why not simply change the directory to which the HOME variable points?
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2024-10-10 6:56 bug#73728: 29.3; Specifing an --alternate-editor for emacscleintw.exe with custom --init-directory does not work on Windows Jonas Großekathöfer via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-10 11:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-10 12:32 ` Jonas Großekathöfer via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-10 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <9a27c88f6c98477d1a6bd2b944a93ba0@purelymail.com>
2024-10-14 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <91f8c7d28fa5981019ae2aea0dccb3ab@purelymail.com>
2024-10-14 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-10 17:58 ` Sebastián Monía
2024-10-10 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-10-10 18:23 ` Sebastián Monía
[not found] ` <8A03740D-08EA-4AA5-A124-D1DA942A3E25@grszkth.fr>
2024-10-10 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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