From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alternate location for .emacs?
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:05:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pco3aa0awbb.fsf@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.721.1245174752.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
+ Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>:
> Am 16.06.2009 um 19:13 schrieb Ross A. Laird:
>
>> I would like to store my .emacs in a location other than ~/.
>> Is this possible?
>
>
> It's not that easy ... (finding the right decision)
>
> [...]
>
> Are there more possible ways? Just one for more than a hand full, half
> a dozen!
You forgot the most obvious. What I do: ~/.emacs is a symlink to the
real .emacs (which is kept in a directory of stuff I maintain in cvs).
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-16 17:13 Alternate location for .emacs? Ross A. Laird
2009-06-16 17:52 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.721.1245174752.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-16 18:05 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2009-06-16 19:04 ` Ross A. Laird
2009-06-16 20:35 ` Bill White
[not found] <mailman.719.1245172417.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-16 17:33 ` B. T. Raven
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