From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Remote .emacs file Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:12:50 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <8642ba650604251700q3143726cv4a5db7a3b5341206@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146071676 17181 80.91.229.2 (26 Apr 2006 17:14:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 26 19:14:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYnas-0003fW-4M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:14:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYnar-0005d3-FQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:14:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FYnag-0005ci-Qs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FYnag-0005cK-62 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYnaf-0005cH-WF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FYndP-0007aP-5m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FYnaO-0003Z2-91 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:13:56 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:13:56 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:13:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: <8642ba650604251700q3143726cv4a5db7a3b5341206@mail.gmail.com> 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:34673 Archived-At: Leonid Grinberg wrote: > I am a long-time Perl programmer, but unfortunately only know > Emacs-Lisp on a theoretical level. However, I do use Emacs a lot, and > have a relatively small, but still useful .emacs file. It has > configurations in it, without which I am starting to feel > uncomfortable. I use Emacs on many different machines (~5), and it > would be nice to have a standard .emacs file. > > In Perl, I could easily put one on the web, and then have Perl > download it and use eval() to load the functions in it. However, I do > not know how to do this with Elisp. So these computers do not share the same home directory? Bummer. Try this in each machine's ~/.emacs file: (load "/@server:/path/to/your-dot-emacs" nil nil t) -- Kevin Rodgers Sr. Software Engineer, IHS