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From: Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com>
Subject: Re: Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file)
Date: 20 Sep 2005 19:49:39 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6hcrrv0.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uaci819ee.fsf_-_@gmail.com

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

> August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se> writes:
> 
> > Henrik Enberg wrote:
> >>>From: August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se>
> >>>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:48:57 GMT
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to instruct Emacs to use an alternative
> >>> initialization file, something like
> >>>
> >>>    $ emacs --init-file=~/.emacs2
> >> 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.
> 

There is a variable which you can set that will tell emacs where to
write customize settings. However, I do vaguely rememher some problems
with this in older versions of emacs - don't know how reliable it is
now. 

Tim


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-20  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-19 12:48 Alternative init file August Karlstrom
2005-09-19 13:21 ` Neon Absentius
2005-09-19 13:27 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-09-19 13:30 ` David Kastrup
     [not found] ` <mailman.7492.1127136943.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-19 20:52   ` August Karlstrom
2005-09-20  7:32     ` Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file) Mathias Dahl
2005-09-20  7:45       ` Alternate init file, take two Ralf Angeli
2005-09-21  7:42         ` Mathias Dahl
2005-09-20  8:48       ` David Hansen
2005-09-20  9:46       ` Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file) Peter Dyballa
2005-09-20  9:49       ` Tim X [this message]

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