From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: suggestion for user-emacs-directory Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:56:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37876"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PxhiuRGqYBqyIuNM5eR5TuRVZoI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 15:57:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kECDG-0009Fc-Ss for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:57:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51700 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kECCw-0003fo-CN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kECCe-0003de-Hf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:52006 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kECCd-00080F-2G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kECCZ-0008kP-Pm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:56:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/04 09:56:28 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123961 Archived-At: > 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