From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 02:35:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130905003506.GD19491@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f08309cd-741d-4757-84ce-8371f07eadbf@googlegroups.com>
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 01:37:23PM -0700, 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 find this really messy and I want all my emacs related
> files(including the .emacs) and folders in a single folder, say
> /home/EmacsHome
>
> 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.
May I ask why you want this? On Linux systems, all user specific
application settings go wherever $HOME points to. So Emacs respects
that. From the perspective of security, and administering a system,
this makes a lot of sense. Unless your username is EmacsHome, and you
are running Emacs as that user, I find your choice quite odd. It might
cause you conflicts with many other utilities.
That said, you could try symbolic links:
# ln -s /home/EmacsHome/.emacs ~/.emacs
# ln -s /home/EmacsHome/.emacs.d ~/.emacs.d
Hope this helps,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-05 0:35 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 [this message]
[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
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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