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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu
Date: 5 Sep 2013 09:11:39 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnl2gimb.mlo.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1321.1378333498.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 04.09.2013 um 22:37 schrieb kishore.r.318@gmail.com:
>
>> in Ubuntu, the HOME variable will be used for several other programs as well, so I dont want to change that.
>
> What about EMACSLOADPATH and the variable load-path?

EMACSLOADPATH is where Emacs searches for Lisp files. If you set/change
it, Emacs may not be able to find the Lisp files it needs to run
normally. It will not change where Emacs stores the user's configuration
files, though.


-- 
Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-05  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-04 20:37 Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu kishore.r.318
2013-09-04 22:24 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-04 22:45   ` Kishore Rathinavel
2013-09-04 22:58     ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-04 23:12       ` Kishore Rathinavel
2013-09-05  0:22         ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-05  1:43           ` Kishore Rathinavel
2013-09-05  8:40             ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-05 16:34             ` Suvayu Ali
     [not found]           ` <mailman.1329.1378345390.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-05  2:47             ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-04 23:35 ` Steven Knight
2013-09-05  0:35 ` Suvayu Ali
     [not found] ` <mailman.1321.1378333498.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-05  9:11   ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2013-09-05  9:19 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-05  9:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-05  9:32   ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-05 16:58     ` Kishore Rathinavel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-05 10:41 Vilibald Wanca

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