From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to specify path to .emacs.d Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:51:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351644919 27199 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2012 00:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:55:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 01:55:26 2012 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 1TTMab-0003Ya-4k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:55:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTMaP-0006yG-AA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:55:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe25.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:83x9d782e2gWvw/PefsPhOznptw= Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:51:54 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 1040 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195169 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:87498 Archived-At: > emacs --eval '(setq user-emacs-directory "my/path/.emacs.d/")' The --eval argument is executed after reading your .emacs (or .emacs.d/init.el) file, so clearly that won't work. > C-h v does show that user-emacs-directory has the /my/path/.emacs.d > value, however. Yes, but only later when you do C-h v, not while trying to load the .emacs file. Stefan