From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Javier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Independent differently-configured instances running concurrently Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:47:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398703830 1149 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2014 16:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:50:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 18:50:24 2014 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 1Weol5-0006Pz-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:50:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Weol4-0003IT-RX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:50:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.86.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: F0FEFcLSZEaVVHfj1cocJw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/2.2.0-20131224 ("Lochindaal") (UNIX) (Linux/3.13.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205156 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:97422 Archived-At: > Note I'm a bit of a *nix noob, so feedback on the bash scripting > side would be most welcome, in addition to anything emacs-specific. I would define bash functions in ~/.bashrc instead of using several scripts, just to keep all configs inside a single file. #include in ~/.bashrc emacs-vanilla() { export HOME=$HOME/emacs/homes/vanilla export PATH="~/.cask/bin:$PATH" /usr/bin/emacs -title vanilla } emacs-...() { ... } > the different instances "stepping" on each other, either in RAM or > perhaps writing back to global init configs? That shouldn't be a problem unless you want to use emacsclient/emacs --daemon > Any other comments welcome For other environment variables you can check M-x Info-goto-node (emacs) General Variables