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From: "Sebastián Monía" <sebastian@sebasmonia.com>
To: "Jonas Großekathöfer" <jonas@grszkth.fr>
Cc: 73728@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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 13:58:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <thqnjzefg7q6.fsf@sebasmonia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <280234ee7b69e2ad82f991a534a9254b@purelymail.com> ("Jonas Großekathöfer"'s message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:32:30 +0200")


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.

-- 
Sebastián Monía
https://site.sebasmonia.com/





  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-10 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2024-10-10 18:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
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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