From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vilibald Wanca Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 12:41:10 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378377691 18081 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2013 10:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:41:31 +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 Sep 05 12:41:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VHX0G-0003lg-HT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58059 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHX0G-0007Vl-4f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHWzx-0007RA-6T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHWzw-0000Rv-4w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::236]:65035) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHWzv-0000Rj-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id kx10so1737044pab.13 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:41:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=zHep+SAB6AJGk5yL95pA+SOnu/17NaDpgF6vScyiMjU=; b=Nqhbb9W4N3g6W3m23kKJRz9IFiFz+mSxLI3R6blJdvKfsFgs9/mnmxyQ2ENmf6AWtm qiOOrtpyf2MaZvT3wSbA7FNK47eaHT7Zalvo2AO7zqCxYadWkfJi0/t4PhsFd+Rgo0Rs Z1aPBg5N0MddunKPDZVAc+CTqDYBKu4/dPI3q91Rc4ZYJD6j3covbEmgeu7VPEs1jH7R a2jTrAQn9Vq23j3nxobwFhKKm5NhNChHGll3lFlMCbSxD2ZubySkuZWZQykK5AUQJKSR p8GEiqoPpAK+PWEWLCwovfQFsgxyUPMLhxnisCjazKH1rFcWNfWbhxwSN76l8eQ22hHt 8Qqg== X-Received: by 10.68.135.35 with SMTP id pp3mr1354153pbb.190.1378377670523; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.68.15.70 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 03:41:10 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::236 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93271 Archived-At: > in Ubuntu, the HOME variable will be used for several other programs as well, so I dont want to change that. Hi, if I understand it correctly you'd like to have a single directory with all the emacs related stuff. Best solution I've come up with so far is to have a emacs directory in my home and the .emacs is actually just symlink to ~/emacs/thismachine.el I work on different computers so I'm using different init files for each of them. General settings which are not machine specific are in separate files. This way all settings and any other data are in one directory which I've got in version control and can easily synchronise over different machines. `it also involves setting up some variables in the init file like separate custom-sesttings, dictionaries load paths and so. Would this be a solution for you? vilda