On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Z C <zcnnbb@gmail.com> wrote:

I just want emacs to load another file as the configuration file, and ignore the default file ("~/.emacs").

Note that I don't want to change the original "~/.emacs" file.

I've tried to change "$HOME" env variable, but it doesn't work.

If you mean you want to have emacs save the customization settings into some other file, then

you need to add this code to ~/.emacs

(setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom.el")

(load custom-file)

More info here: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Saving-Customizations.html

HTH.

Regards,

Vineet