From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans BKK Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Independent differently-configured instances running concurrently Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3e6501e6-facf-4c17-afb4-d299208f31ad@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398732029 4341 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2014 00:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 29 02:40:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wew5q-0000S4-Kf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wew5q-0002WO-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:40:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.157.35 with SMTP id wj3mr14249320pab.11.1398731795846; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:36:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.107.136 with SMTP id hc8mr57282obb.23.1398731795719; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!l13no11811802iga.0!news-out.google.com!en3ni366igc.0!nntp.google.com!uq10no127860igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2602:306:334f:a5e0:5cb7:54b4:7312:47e0; posting-account=IUdGewoAAACF9WtA3i8stuVyXNk2FqaH Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2602:306:334f:a5e0:5cb7:54b4:7312:47e0 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:36:35 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205171 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97438 Archived-At: On Monday, April 28, 2014 8:10:27 PM UTC-4, Michael Heerdegen wrote: #!/bin/bash=20 HOME=3D$HOME/emacs/homes/vanilla=20 export PATH=3D"~/.cask/bin:$PATH"=20 /bin/bash=20 # emacs=20 What's the purpose of the second /bin/bash occurrence? My impression is=20 that this script is just not your final version (with "emacs" commented=20 out ...)?=20 I'm not sure how I can be more clear, the fact that each .emacs.dir is a tr= acking remote from my central repository, in case I want/need to run git co= mmands before and/or after I run emacs. Saves maintaining a dual set of scr= ipts for every instance - when I've climbed the linux learning curve a bit = I'll check out that suggestion wrt the rc file. But so far see no need for creating new users. . . @Robert - well buying separate hardware for just this purpose wouldn't simp= lify things 8-)