From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: storing elpa packages in different folder Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 16:18:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83tu9wqkaq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <85h75ywmyy.fsf@gmail.com> <83h75ytsy7.fsf@gnu.org> <85czgkw7ej.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21784"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 11 15:19:44 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nomFh-0005TD-7e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 May 2022 15:19:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38518 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nomFg-0003Bf-6K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 May 2022 09:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nomEv-0003BQ-UH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2022 09:18:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39828) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nomEv-0002Ve-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2022 09:18:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=H42If9IMDGI4dFoXDv8VtIOnNlgDyJlQ14M15RUBQWQ=; b=ocJlxLxA/mvN +WLxNklCOuaDhy3CF5z0Pu4hZ+Yruqvl3ePw9XC4C0nmskp8o+iPtVrgstHwJDCTWORW6r0KOhju6 gdI1GlHbL9kO8+FL0Zas1oBQF/LdN3MhKZPZi/zDkoW/dvjtmOkKTxqfWhoX1r3sy2yEeY8x6ewS/ FM0fFLqvLOeUk887veTHVSEfFxc8kmFE4JpOhau4F3Ur1aCFdksyE7klA5p+XTqP7n3yXXwLbK1HZ 0nYxgPa9TFSU8tpJcT+9A/yKd6jTNoZ8IFss/qNtzN8ymT2tMAoQQg0bl+Sd+VsqaJtEF8/qIU67v Wa5ZsAP5lVZvj8NEsFAGGQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4557 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nomEv-0003q6-4k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2022 09:18:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <85czgkw7ej.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Sivaram Neelakantan on Wed, 11 May 2022 18:30:52 +0530) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137227 Archived-At: > From: Sivaram Neelakantan > Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 18:30:52 +0530 > User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com > > On Mon, May 09 2022,Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > [snipped 17 lines] > > > > > The easiest way is to set the HOME environment variable to point to > > c:/gnu/initfiles/.emacs.d/. Do this system-wide (via the Properties > > of your computer), and your problem will be solved. > > > > Thanks for this. There's a few custom cmd/powershell scripts that > seem to set HOME/read HOME that may stop working if I change it > system-wide. My advice is to adapt those other scripts as well. Setting HOME outside of Emacs (and any other program) is the best way of doing such customizations; anything else comes with caveats that will bite you some day.