From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing $HOME Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:51:34 -0700 Message-ID: <38sakcF5rmo3pU1@individual.net> References: <20050223233416726+0000@news.btinternet.com> <873bvm4xqq.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> <20050224002912263+0000@news.btinternet.com> <1109968082.394434.43120@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <87vf87ui17.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <1109979196.118558.141930@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109980327 8064 80.91.229.2 (4 Mar 2005 23:52:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 05 00:52:06 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7Ma2-0007tQ-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:51:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7MtH-0005he-J0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:11:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Ik/peVZSJ726c50xAIps+ALMixa9erA79nyDSlFj1a8VPe52w= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1109979196.118558.141930@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128976 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24522 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24522 Shug Boabby wrote: > thanks pascal... but the problem is that i only wish to set HOME for > emacs, but not the other dock (or OS X) apps. Does this do the trick: emacs -q --no-site-file C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET (setenv "HOME" "/where/you/want/to/be") RET C-x C-s C-x C-c emacs -- Kevin Rodgers