From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: An alternative to a monolithic ~/.emacs init file Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:08:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87zlxoopfk.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> References: <1194455637.485972.177570@s15g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194527348 18418 80.91.229.12 (8 Nov 2007 13:09:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:09:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 08 14:09:11 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 1Iq77y-00069L-7U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:08:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iq77m-0007HT-Jt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:08:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iq77V-0007Gi-AF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:08:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iq77U-0007Fk-4x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iq77T-0007Fc-SS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:08:27 -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 1Iq77S-0004xY-It for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Iq77M-0005tQ-U4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:08:20 +0000 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:08:20 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:08:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CnZCAYlc2hQF3YP12aIs3tRWd9E= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:49078 Archived-At: Quoth rustom : > Could you please elaborate on how this works a little? [...] I really > would like to have a tiny little .emacs file and a bunch of files and > directories containing unrelated stuff If you don't care about autoloads (or you're not sure what they are) and you just want a small ~/.emacs, then all you need is this: ;;; load dotemacs/*.el (mapc (lambda (f) (load f)) (split-string (shell-command-to-string "find ~/elisp/dotemacs -name *.el"))) This routine simply loads each file ending '.el' found under the directory ~/elisp/dotemacs. Sebastian