From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Test Alternative initialize scheme Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 07:15:56 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20180405151556.GB6062@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <86o9iytrsp.fsf@zoho.com> <86po3e4f1o.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522941322 31416 195.159.176.226 (5 Apr 2018 15:15:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 15:15:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 05 17:15:18 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f46bd-00082t-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:15:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f46dh-00008u-Ap for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58135) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f46cL-0008DW-Mb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f46cI-00044Y-Ic for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:51524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f46cI-000448-8W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:15:58 -0400 Original-Received: by linus (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4BCCA240014; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 07:15:56 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86po3e4f1o.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116352 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg [180404 17:30]: > Tim Johnson wrote: > > > I'm not sure how one might combine spacemacs > > and emacs resources under one directory. > > The spacemacs install directions call for > > installing spacemacs directly into .emacs.d > > and I'm presuming that will totally clobber > > my existing config. > > OK, sorry, now I understand the problem! > If this is what you mean by "clutter" it is > very poor engineering indeed! Unbelievable - > you should mail the developers and tell them! > > *Yes* you should definitely change it! You and I are likely on similar latitudes but different longitudes - i.e. while you were thinking I was sleeping :). Given that I have backed up my emacs.d - I will have my coffee, then follow the spacemacs installs instructions to the letter and see what happens. I will then report back. > I'd do it like this: Do a grep for any > reference to .emacs.d in the spacemacs source > and instalation scripts, Makefiles etc. If it > is a variable somewhere, change it, to > .spacemacs.d - and if it isn't, change > every occurence. > > Then you might need to tell spacemacs to look > there, as well. Understood. Good tactic. Great minds run in the same gutter. More l8tr -- Tim Johnson http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com