From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inexplicable flaw: non-overridable .emacs Date: 17 Mar 2007 13:54:24 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174142407 1870 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2007 14:40:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:40:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 17 15:40:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HSa4e-0004eA-Lb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:40:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HSa5t-0001Vg-DL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:41:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: individual.net ojcebkWV1D+B4+pvNt2g9QQwA4X8R3MFS5PErTeZfgRfD/cnQx Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146426 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42030 Archived-At: kj wrote: > Nothing against an .emacs file, but occasionally I want to run > Emacs with a drastically different set of customizations from what's > in my .emacs file. if that is what you're after, you may be able to put an if-statement in your .emacs to test for the special circumstances in which you need to use this different set of customisations. if these are circumstances that emacs itself cannot test for, you can always call emacs with something like emacs --eval "(setq load-my-other-dot-emacs t)" and test for the value of load-my-other-dot-emacs. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)