From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Starting Emacs with different init file Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:40:22 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F9EC626.6030002@yahoo.com> References: <3F9EA57A.8020605@vmlinux.org> <1067362325.4184.3.camel@Hades> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067370599 19172 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 19:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 20:49:55 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEZql-0004gj-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:49:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEZmp-0006Tq-62 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:45:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1067370019 36277784 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117657 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13589 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13589 Joachim Nilsson wrote: > 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. It's already been done for you! http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ProjectSettings -- Kevin Rodgers