From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16242: 24.3; wish: set init directory (.emacs.d) by commandline flag for easy custom environments Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:12:57 -0700 Message-ID: <87k1bf6us6.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <87ppom45ge.wl%arne_bab@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="196887"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 16242@debbugs.gnu.org To: Arne Babenhauserheide Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 15 04:53:03 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hy5st-000p7D-Fw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:53:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37842 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hy5ss-0000vi-9R for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hy5H9-00039N-7t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hy5H8-0004N2-0x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hy5H7-0004M0-T9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hy5H7-0003eK-NO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:14:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 02:14:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16242 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 16242-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16242.156583518513956 (code B ref 16242); Thu, 15 Aug 2019 02:14:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16242) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Aug 2019 02:13:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50112 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hy5GD-0003d1-9W for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:60888) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hy5GC-0003cu-BM for 16242@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from 24-104-73-23-ip-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([24.104.73.23] helo=sandy) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hy5G7-0006fB-CH; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:13:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ppom45ge.wl%arne_bab@web.de> (Arne Babenhauserheide's message of "Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:46:41 +0100") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165021 Archived-At: Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > There are nowadays quite a few customized Emacs environments (like > prelude, emacs-for-python, elpy, and so forth), and testing them > quickly can be quite a challenge, because they need to be intergrated > with the local customizations. > > To ease that, it would be nice, if I could simply set the directory to > use for my init with a commandline flag. > > This would make it possible to specialize my local emacs in several > different ways - and to quickly show not-yet-emacs-users how emacs > would work for their task: > > emacs --init-dir ~/emacs-init/python-ide # edit python (I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no responses yet.) I think this sounds like a reasonable request, and I was surprised that this doesn't exist yet. You can achieve something like this with, for instance, HOME=/tmp/foo emacs ... or with --eval, but neither seem very logical. Does anybody object to adding an --init-dir switch? It would just basically set `user-emacs-directory'. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no