From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inexplicable flaw: non-overridable .emacs Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:43:13 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <877itfvpta.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174146827 14555 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2007 15:53:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:53:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 17 16:53:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HSbDt-0001Em-SU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:53:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HSbF9-0000Af-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HSbEv-00007Z-J1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HSbEu-00004q-7b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HSbEu-0008W6-0C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:54:40 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HSbDe-0004zb-LJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HSbDY-0000qr-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:53:16 +0100 Original-Received: from e178015136.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.15.136]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:53:16 +0100 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178015136.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:53:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178015136.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TZ3tcX66anPiAAwhZCS95jEcHeI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:42033 Archived-At: On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:43:58 +0000 (UTC) kj wrote: > Nothing against an .emacs file, but occasionally I want to run > Emacs with a drastically different set of customizations from what's > in my .emacs file. Since a lot of these customizations pertain > display, I need to do some experimentation to determine whether > the --load option will do what I need. What always works with all UNIX programs is $ HOME=$OTHERHOME emacs Just create $OTHERHOME/.emacs and this will be loaded. David