From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggestion for user-emacs-directory
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:56:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwo19fy7s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: riea6y5ke6s.fsf@faulbaum.in-berlin.de
> I use (at least) 3 versions of emacs on one computer, one from the
[...]
> Maybe not the most elegant way but this works for me to distinguish
> these versions.
[...]
> Would it be good, if the user-emacs-directory not only becomes
> "per-user Emacs-specific"
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.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-04 13:56 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 [this message]
2020-09-05 5:58 ` David Masterson
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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