From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ole Laursen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: alternative to (require ...) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:47:58 +0100 Organization: TDC Totalloesninger Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k72c9uw1.fsf@bach.composers> References: <20040224163251.5739e4cd@deasker> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077650660 1269 80.91.224.253 (24 Feb 2004 19:24:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:24:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 20:24:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AviA8-0006gk-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:24:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AvhoS-0000N9-Ja for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:01:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3g0bSEIk+GZFR6qPTCa/mxwbLrU= Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.165.63.132 Original-X-Trace: 1077648332 dread15.news.tele.dk 29398 131.165.63.132:40827 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121212 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17159 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17159 Sam Halliday writes: [...] > but if this package is not installed on the system, emacs bails on > loading the rest of my ~/.emacs file. this is quite annoying as i > like to maintain a single ~/.emacs file and use it wherever i am > using emacs. I do the following in my .emacs: (if (file-readable-p "~/.local-emacs") (load "~/.local-emacs")) Then I put the stuff that is specific for a particular site into .local-emacs so that I can keep the .emacs files synchronised. -- Ole Laursen http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/