From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu
Date: 5 Sep 2013 09:19:41 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnl2gj5d.mlo.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f08309cd-741d-4757-84ce-8371f07eadbf@googlegroups.com
kishore.r.318@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Currently my .emacs file is found in /home So is my .emacs.d folder
> and I suppose some other files like diary, notes etc will be created
> in this folder.
I assume that when you write /home, you actually mean your home
directory, also abbreviated with a tilde in Unix/Linux, right? /home is
an actual directory in a Linux file system, it's *not* your home
directory. (That is a subdirectory of /home, like /home/joost in my
case.)
> I find this really messy and I want all my emacs related
> files(including the .emacs) and folders in a single folder, say
> /home/EmacsHome
Well, normally Emacs should keep everything in ~/.emacs.d, including its
init file, unless it finds a file ~/.emacs. So I'd suggest moving
~/.emacs to ~/.emacs.d/init.el (that's what the file should be called),
then most everything should be kept there.
Of course, Emacs is more than an editor, its basically a Lisp VM, and
programs running in Emacs may decide to put their config files outside
of ~/.emacs.d (at least some do, IME). It's usually possible to
configure them to put their config files in ~/.emacs.d as well, though,
you'll just have to find out how.
> How do I do that in Ubuntu 12.04? In windows I did this by setting an
> environment variable HOME to the path of EmacsHome. But, in Ubuntu,
> the HOME variable will be used for several other programs as well, so
> I dont want to change that.
Looking through the Emacs manual there doesn't seem to be a way to do
that. What you *could* do, is set HOME to a different value just for
Emacs, but I wouldn't recommend that, because it could mess up external
programs that Emacs calls.
--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-05 9:19 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
2013-09-05 9:19 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2013-09-05 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-05 9:32 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-05 16:58 ` Kishore Rathinavel
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2013-09-05 10:41 Vilibald Wanca
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