From: Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: howto build separate cvs version?
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 07:37:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080602073714.52c2d060@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 65bdbca2-1577-4476-a14d-328f1919d613@b9g2000prh.googlegroups.com
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 07:31:17 -0700 (PDT)
knubee <knubee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is /test/emacs-cvs-installation in your $PATH?
> > Anyway, try
> > ./emacs-from-cvs
>
> ah, thanks. this worked:
>
> ./bin/emacs-from-cvs
>
> how can i get this installation of emacs to use a different .emacs
> file?
>
In the site-lisp directory hidden in the emacs-from-cvs directory there
can be a file called site-start.el In that file you can put something
like this
(setenv "HOME" /path/to/a/different/home-dir)
Make that directory and put your new dotemacs there.
Shelagh
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-01 13:35 howto build separate cvs version? knubee
2008-06-01 13:51 ` Daniel
2008-06-01 13:59 ` David Hansen
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2008-06-01 14:31 ` knubee
2008-06-01 21:37 ` Shelagh Manton [this message]
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2008-06-02 10:19 ` knubee
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2008-06-01 14:38 ` knubee
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