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From: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggestion for user-emacs-directory
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 22:58:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SN6PR01MB4493E256267B04A9ECCEAB329B2A0@SN6PR01MB4493.prod.exchangelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwo19fy7s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:56:22 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> My 80KB .emacs doesn't rely on any kind of "version" info, yet I use it
> unchanged with Emacs-24, Emacs-25, Emacs-26, Emacs-27, and Emacs-git
> (and occasionally XEmacs).
>
> I think it's easier to do that than to keep various configs synchronized
> between the different versions they support.  But of course, nothing
> prevents you from setting `user-emacs-directory` to a version-specific
> directory.

How do you deal with packages that don't exist in earlier Emacsen?

-- 
David Masterson



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-05  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-04 10:51 suggestion for user-emacs-directory Dieter Faulbaum
2020-09-04 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-05  5:58   ` David Masterson [this message]
2020-09-05 15:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-06 22:22       ` David Masterson
2020-09-10  4:24   ` Bob Newell

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