From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternate init file, take two Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:45:34 +0200 Organization: nil Message-ID: <432fbe1f$0$255$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: Reply-To: angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127204282 20251 80.91.229.2 (20 Sep 2005 08:18:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 20 10:18:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHdIx-0004sC-JZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:16:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHdIv-0006rp-Vb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:16:42 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!newscore.univie.ac.at!texta.sil.at!w3bhost.de!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Aq79K6y0VKPpfPBpfvgzx1/Xt30= Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.96.72.190 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=m_jcMcLej4gPEW:6ooR3ldYSB=nbEKnkk`L`\?U5D^KhdM^?@fF?^2j3ZO04Y?N8im=j_QPH5cmAmKZ>gjcQEn_fdoONhCWbm:` Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134021 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29580 Archived-At: * Mathias Dahl (2005-09-20) writes: >>> emacs -q --load ~/.emacs2 >> >> OK, thanks everyone. > > One problem with this solution is that any customizations the user > might do (using M-x customize), will be saved to ~/.emacs and not the > alternative init file. > > Does anyone have any solution for this? Sometimes I want to start a > more "light" Emacs with a smaller init file, but still be able to use > the customize tool and save that to my smaller init file. See (info "(emacs)Saving Customizations") in a CVS Emacs' info documentation or `C-h v custom-file RET'. -- Ralf