Sharing Emacs customization across different workstations?

Sharing Emacs customization across different workstations?

[Elena]

Hi,

how would you advice sharing Emacs customization across different
workstations?

I mean, I use Emacs both at work (Windows) and at home (Linux).
Currently, I keep customization locally, and use a USB stick and a
synchronization tool to transfer changes back and forth. I've thought
about using just the USB stick and referencing it from .emacs, but I
fear losing it, whilst local copies get backed up. That's just my
current way of managing things.

Would you advice differently?

Thanks.

Re: Sharing Emacs customization across different workstations?

[Olivier Sirven]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
Hi,

> how would you advice sharing Emacs customization across different
> workstations?
I use a git repository to store my conf files. Then to deploy or update
my configuration on a host, I just have to update the local copy of the
repository.
It's very easy this way for me to manage.

-- 
Olivier

Re: Sharing Emacs customization across different workstations?

[Nurullah Akkaya]

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Olivier Sirven <the.slaa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> > how would you advice sharing Emacs customization across different
> > workstations?
> I use a git repository to store my conf files. Then to deploy or update
> my configuration on a host, I just have to update the local copy of the
> repository.
> It's very easy this way for me to manage.
>
> --
> Olivier
>

+1 for get repository.

 All my init files are under a folder called emacs/

in my .emacs there is only one line that loads emacs/init.el
init.el in turn loads all the files settings needed.
That way i can keep 1 os x 2 linux and 2 windows  instances in sync.

-- 
Nurullah Akkaya
http://nakkaya.com

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Re: Sharing Emacs customization across different workstations?

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi,

Nurullah Akkaya wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Olivier Sirven <the.slaa-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Elena <egarrulo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> > how would you advice sharing Emacs customization across different
>> > workstations?
>>
>> I use a git repository to store my conf files. Then to deploy or update
>> my configuration on a host, I just have to update the local copy of the
>> repository.
>> It's very easy this way for me to manage.
>
> +1 for get repository.
>
>  All my init files are under a folder called emacs/
>
> in my .emacs there is only one line that loads emacs/init.el
> init.el in turn loads all the files settings needed.
> That way i can keep 1 os x 2 linux and 2 windows  instances in sync.

Same thing. "Sharing" via a Subversion (or CVS) local "working copy", that I
update as soon as I've committed changes from the other place where it's
deployed.

Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban

Re: Sharing Emacs customization across different workstations?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.07.2009 um 18:39 schrieb Elena:

> how would you advice sharing Emacs customization across different
> workstations?


Have the init and desktop/session files on a network file system from  
some server?

Exchange these files via eMail?


I never developed the idea of having exactly *one* private init file  
everywhere, also using as super-user the same file. There is just a  
huge block of settings that is shared between them... At Easter or  
Christmas I check whether some synching is necessary, and that's all!

--
Greetings

   Pete

’Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to  
thank her for it.
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