From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: "François Févotte" <francois.fevotte@ensta.org>
Cc: 15539@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15539: Setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:36:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8uk2yhg4m2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADsv966ew8NseGyaEZgJ8c1birphdgF9TXp5YNdZzOkjV7GVA@mail.gmail.com> ("François Févotte"'s message of "Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:01:55 +0100")
François Févotte wrote:
> Implementationwise, I'm not very proud of having to define a new global
> variable,
I'm not saying it's the right solution, but you could use an environment
variable (eg EMACS_USER_DIRECTORY) rather than a command-line switch to
control this. This would be consistent with eg EMACSDATA, and also I
think with how other applications normally let you control where they
look for their init files (?). But on the other hand, environment
variables can be easier to overlook than explicit flags eg when
debugging.
On the other other hand, the OP could just do
ln -s mine.d .emacs.d
so I'm not sure what the point of this feature would be, unless eg you
frequently want to swap between different .emacs.d's?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-16 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-06 17:08 bug#15539: 24.3; setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation Mike Carifio
2015-03-13 15:01 ` bug#15539: Setting " François Févotte
2015-03-16 0:36 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2015-03-16 7:28 ` François Févotte
2015-03-17 10:08 ` François Févotte
2016-02-15 10:31 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Alexis
2016-02-15 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 4:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-25 5:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-03 22:32 ` bug#15539: comment Max
2016-11-04 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-04 12:42 ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2016-11-04 12:55 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-04 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-14 18:43 ` Glenn Morris
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