From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Knight Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:35:31 -0400 Message-ID: <5227C3C3.3060903@knight.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378337757 1675 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2013 23:35:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 23:35:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: kishore.r.318@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 05 01:35:58 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VHMcA-0002WP-Fq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 01:35:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56309 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHMc9-0003g3-Ue for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49055) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHMbv-0003fr-IK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:35:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHMbp-0002qo-S6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:35:43 -0400 Original-Received: from blackstar.sr.unh.edu ([132.177.241.80]:33733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHMbp-0002qg-LR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:35:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (c-174-62-205-40.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [174.62.205.40]) (authenticated bits=0) by blackstar.sr.unh.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r84NZXWO006212 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:35:34 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (blackstar.sr.unh.edu [132.177.241.80]); Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:35:34 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.177.241.80 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93253 Archived-At: 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