From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Shug Boabby" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing $HOME Date: 4 Mar 2005 16:22:18 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1109982138.803035.234990@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <20050223233416726+0000@news.btinternet.com> <873bvm4xqq.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> <20050224002912263+0000@news.btinternet.com> <1109968082.394434.43120@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <87vf87ui17.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <1109979196.118558.141930@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <87r7ivueuz.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109982033 22110 80.91.229.2 (5 Mar 2005 00:20:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 05 01:20:33 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7N1u-0003eP-PH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:20:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7NLA-0001UW-SK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:40:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.19.221.216 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1109982143 30264 127.0.0.1 (5 Mar 2005 00:22:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:22:23 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87r7ivueuz.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.19.221.216; posting-account=jQz-EQ0AAABiniXWq8YyRVQ60t_LIYwt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128980 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24526 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24526 cheers pascal... but again, the problem is that i wish to do this in OS X... from the dock start icon. you cannot put a script in the dock, otherwise i would. btw, putenv is void on my version. my original plan was to have two .emacs files: /Users/shug/.emacs which would set HOME and load my *real* /Users/shug/GNU/.emacs which is my .emacs which i use on many platforms and i syncronise quite a lot. so adding OS X specific stuff into this file is bad in my book. but an alternative would be to scrap the unnecessary .emacs and get OS X to pass the HOME envar to emacs when started from the dock.