From: Steven Knight <steven@knight.cx>
To: kishore.r.318@gmail.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:35:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5227C3C3.3060903@knight.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f08309cd-741d-4757-84ce-8371f07eadbf@googlegroups.com>
On 9/4/2013 4:37 PM, kishore.r.318@gmail.com wrote:
> Currently my .emacs file is found in /home So is my .emacs.d folder and I suppose some other files like diary, notes etc will be created in this folder.
>
> I find this really messy and I want all my emacs related files(including the .emacs) and folders in a single folder, say /home/EmacsHome
>
> How do I do that in Ubuntu 12.04? In windows I did this by setting an environment variable HOME to the path of EmacsHome. But, in Ubuntu, the HOME variable will be used for several other programs as well, so I dont want to change that.
>
Hi,
May I suggest that you leave .emacs.d as it is and simply move .emacs to
~/.emacs.d/init.el
Thanks,
--
Steven Knight <steven@knight.cx>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-04 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-04 20:37 Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu kishore.r.318
2013-09-04 22:24 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-04 22:45 ` Kishore Rathinavel
2013-09-04 22:58 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-04 23:12 ` Kishore Rathinavel
2013-09-05 0:22 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-05 1:43 ` Kishore Rathinavel
2013-09-05 8:40 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-05 16:34 ` Suvayu Ali
[not found] ` <mailman.1329.1378345390.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-05 2:47 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-04 23:35 ` Steven Knight [this message]
2013-09-05 0:35 ` Suvayu Ali
[not found] ` <mailman.1321.1378333498.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-05 9:11 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-05 9:19 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-05 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-05 9:32 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-05 16:58 ` Kishore Rathinavel
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2013-09-05 10:41 Vilibald Wanca
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