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 13:57:06 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20180405215706.GD6062@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20180404231211.GB31955@mail.akwebsoft.com> <6ce75f69-276e-35af-fd51-5b75bfa9dcb0@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522965407 19746 195.159.176.226 (5 Apr 2018 21:56:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:56:47 +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 23:56:43 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 1f4Cs4-0004wS-Gr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:56:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57521 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4Cu8-0007ST-7r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:58:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4CsZ-0006lL-7h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4CsW-0005FX-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:36360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4CsV-0005F5-Tp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: by linus (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6EBEC240014; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 13:57:06 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6ce75f69-276e-35af-fd51-5b75bfa9dcb0@gmail.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:116363 Archived-At: * Nikolay Kudryavtsev [180405 13:50]: > There's a script called emacs-distribution on EmacsWiki: > > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacs-distribution > > It achieves the same thing you're trying to do, but using a different method > - it presets HOME env variable. > > Advantage over your setup - configs get ran normally, so even Customize, > which gets disabled by -q would work. > > Disadvantage - you can't refer to subfolders in your ~ from inside of Emacs, > I usually symlink the ones I need. > Thank you. That is one of the sites that I reviewed before opening this topi. cheers -- Tim Johnson http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com