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: [solved]Test Alternative initialize scheme Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 16:27:26 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20180408002726.GB2009@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20180404231211.GB31955@mail.akwebsoft.com> <6ce75f69-276e-35af-fd51-5b75bfa9dcb0@gmail.com> <20180405215706.GD6062@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523148867 25123 195.159.176.226 (8 Apr 2018 00:54:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 00:54:27 +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 Sun Apr 08 02:54:22 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 1f4yb7-0006R6-AW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 02:54:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4ydC-0000YM-Md for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:56:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50350) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4ych-0000Y4-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4yce-0004pY-IM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:55:59 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:58986) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4yce-0004p3-96 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: by linus (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D33A424006D; Sat, 7 Apr 2018 16:27:26 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180405215706.GD6062@mail.akwebsoft.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:116397 Archived-At: * Tim Johnson [180405 14:02]: > * 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 topic. So my usage of emacs is pretty limited, since I am "resting on my laurels", "enjoying a golden sunset", etc. Thus I discarded the goal of running more than one "kit" at a time and just set up two launch scripts, one which symlinks my "standard" .emacs.d (now located elsewhere) to ~/.emacs.d, and the other symlinks .spacemacs.d to ~/.emacs.d. It seems to be a workable solution and switching them is very fast on my machine. For decades I've used both terminal vim (system work via MC) and Gui-Emacs for coding. Spacemacs should turn out be a reasonable marriage of two paradigms - and as my wife would tell me, a reasonable marriage beats one made in heaven (if indeed any marriages really are). Seriously, spacemacs seems to be a nice piece of work. Kudos to the developers. -- Tim Johnson http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com