multiple configuration files_ is this correct method?

multiple configuration files_ is this correct method?

[జిందం వాఐి]

* i am on debian bookworm from proot-distro [ 1 ]
* login method_  $ proot-distro login debian
* as of now, i have two configurations_ default
and irc
* i am trying to use multiple configurations
concurrently by launching from menu on twm:
"1"         f.exec "emacs-lucid -l ~/.config/emacs/irc/init.el &"
* is code correct?
* files in .config/emacs
   * .config/emacs/default_
    * init.el
;;; Personal configuration -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

;; Save the contents of this file under ~/.emacs.d/init.el
;; Do not forget to use Emacs' built-in help system:
;; Use C-h C-h to get an overview of all help commands.  All you
;; need to know about Emacs (what commands exist, what functions do,
;; what variables specify), the help system can provide.

;; Add the NonGNU ELPA package archive
;; (require 'package)
;; (add-to-list 'package-archives  '("nongnu" . 
"https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/"))
;; (unless package-archive-contents  (package-refresh-contents))

;; Miscellaneous options

;; Store automatic customisation options elsewhere
(setq custom-file (locate-user-emacs-file 
"~/.config/emacs/default/custom.el"))
(when (file-exists-p custom-file)
   (load custom-file))

    * custom.el
(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  '(auto-save-default nil)
  '(create-lockfiles nil)
  '(debug-on-error t)
  '(make-backup-files nil))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  )

   * .config/emacs/irc_
    * init.el_

;;; Personal configuration -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

;; Save the contents of this file under ~/.emacs.d/init.el
;; Do not forget to use Emacs' built-in help system:
;; Use C-h C-h to get an overview of all help commands.  All you
;; need to know about Emacs (what commands exist, what functions do,
;; what variables specify), the help system can provide.

;; Add the NonGNU ELPA package archive
;; (require 'package)
;; (add-to-list 'package-archives  '("nongnu" . 
"https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/"))
;; (unless package-archive-contents  (package-refresh-contents))

;; Miscellaneous options

;; Store automatic customisation options elsewhere
(setq custom-file (locate-user-emacs-file 
"~/.config/emacs/irc/custom.el"))
(when (file-exists-p custom-file)
   (load custom-file))

    * custom.el
(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  '(auto-save-default nil)
  '(create-lockfiles nil)
  '(debug-on-error t)
  '(make-backup-files nil))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  )
;;; IRC Client

;; Connect to Librea
(setq rcirc-server-alist
       '(("irc.libera.chat" :channels ("#emacs")
          :port 6697 :encryption tls)))

;; Set your IRC nick
(setq rcirc-default-nick "jindam")
(add-hook 'rcirc-mode-hook #'rcirc-track-minor-mode)
(add-hook 'rcirc-mode-hook #'rcirc-omit-mode)

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Re: multiple configuration files_ is this correct method?

[Nikolay Kudryavtsev]

No, it's not, -l flag still loads your init.

If you're using 29.1, there's now '--init-directory' flag for doing that.

Another well tested option for multiple inits is using the 
emacs-distribution script form here:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacs-distribution

Re: multiple configuration files_ is this correct method?

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On 10/23/23 14:07, Nikolay Kudryavtsev wrote:
> No, it's not, -l flag still loads your init.
>
> If you're using 29.1, there's now '--init-directory' flag for doing that.
>
> Another well tested option for multiple inits is using the 
> emacs-distribution script form here:
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacs-distribution
>
>

For the RefPerSys open source inference engine project (see GPLv3+ code 
on https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ ...) I find convenient to 
have two emacs processes (one running the latest emacs, installed as 
/usr/local/bin/emacs-trunk so 30.0.50 compiled every day after a git 
pull, another being the Ubuntu default emacs, so GNU Emacs 29.1).

The other emacs is started by the following zsh function

function bisemacs()
{
     emacs -bg azure --no-desktop --name bisemacs -q -l $HOME/.bisemacs &
}

with emacs-trunk started in a terminal as emacs-trunk -bg ivory &

My .emacs file being on 
https://github.com/bstarynk/misc-basile/blob/master/.emacs


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