From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting user-emacs-directory Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:25:06 +0100 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200811132325.mADNP6xZ006463@zogzog.maillard.mobi> References: <1e908a82-ab50-4240-85cd-9092b94a97ab@y29g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226618888 2862 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2008 23:28:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:28:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, arcadiorubiogarcia@gmail.com To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 00:29:10 2008 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 1L0lcb-0001ac-5d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:29:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0lbS-0008Gk-TS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:27:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0lb5-0008GR-Em for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0lb3-0008Fw-Ou for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40272 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0lb3-0008Ft-Lb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:27:33 -0500 Original-Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]:51689) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0lb3-0005TE-KX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:27:33 -0500 Original-Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 7CCCFF4190; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:27:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from zogzog.maillard.mobi (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mADNP6sF006464; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:25:06 +0100 Original-Received: (from xma@localhost) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.2/8.13.8/Submit) id mADNP6xZ006463; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:25:06 +0100 In-reply-to: (lekktu@gmail.com) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.12 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr X-uucpssh: Found to be clean X-uucpssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.342, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.06, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00) X-uucpssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:59763 Archived-At: Hi, > I've tried to set the user-emacs-directory from my init > file, but Emacs ignores me, and still creates auto-save-list inside > ~/.emacs.d. Does it work adding this at the start of your .emacs? auto-save-list-file-prefix (concat user-emacs-directory "auto-save-list/.saves-")) It should behave this way by default when not on a MS platform (at least with emacs23). Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org