Re: Starting Emacs with different init file

[Joachim Nilsson <joachim@vmlinux.org>]

Dan Anderson wrote:
> You could leave an empty .emacs file on your main file, and then M-x
> load-file RET filename to load the .emacs file from the directory, but
> that would probably be more trouble then it's worth.

Yep.

> I wonder if you did something like:
> (load-file "./.emacs")
> in your .emacs, would that work?

That did the trick!

Now, if only I knew how to traverse up the dir tree from where I start
emacs and let it take the first init file one it finds until it reaches
$HOME/.emacs-default. Like this:

~/Work/Projects/Customer_One/Product_Series1/SW/src/
~/Work/Projects/Customer_One/Product_Series1/SW/
~/Work/Projects/Customer_One/Product_Series1/
~/Work/Projects/Customer_One/.emacs

or

~/Work/Projects/Customer_Two/Productum/HW/vhdl/
~/Work/Projects/Customer_Two/Productum/HW/
~/Work/Projects/Customer_Two/Productum/
~/Work/Projects/Customer_Two/
~/Work/Projects/
~/Work/
~/.emacs-default

Looks like a recursive problem to me, and maybe even something I can put 
together myself even.


Thanks!
  /Joachim

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