From: Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change location of .emacs
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:33:03 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnetp7jf.d0r.bergv@bolmikolke.math.uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4858.1172085400.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.4858.1172085400.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu>
>> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:05:12 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> In article <871wkjpiaz.fsf@gmail.com>, Hadron wrote:
>> >
>> > A quick google shows me I can change the "user" with -u to pick up that
>> > users .emacs, but how to just say I want MY ".emacs" which is in another
>> > directory? I wish to keep my .emacs in my "lisp" directory and tell
>> > emacs about it on the command line. Possible?
>>
>> To learn about emacs maybe not google but read the documentation? See
>> command line arguments section in the manual, you seem to be looking
>> for
>> emacs -q -l lispdirectory/your.emacs.file
>
> This suggestion could have surprising effects, as loading .emacs via
> the -l switch is subtly different from what Emacs does when it finds
> .emacs in the user's home directory.
Hm, I didn't realize this. What can go wrong?
> To the OP: I suggest to put a one-line .emacs in your HOME directory
> that says this:
>
> (load "your.lisp.directory/your.emacs.file")
Well, the OP didn't want to have a .emacs in his home directory, if I
understood him correctly.
--
Maarten Bergvelt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 16:49 change location of .emacs Hadron
2007-02-21 17:05 ` Maarten Bergvelt
2007-02-21 17:20 ` Hadron
2007-02-21 17:36 ` Maarten Bergvelt
2007-02-21 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4858.1172085400.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-21 19:33 ` Maarten Bergvelt [this message]
2007-02-22 4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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