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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change location of .emacs
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:16:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3b4zl3sd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnetouu8.cpb.bergv@bolmikolke.math.uiuc.edu> (message from Maarten Bergvelt on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:05:12 +0000 (UTC))

> 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.

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")

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21 19:16 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 [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4858.1172085400.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-21 19:33     ` Maarten Bergvelt
2007-02-22  4:26       ` Eli Zaretskii

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