From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using emacs in Multiple OS"s and multiple computers Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 01:42:20 +0200 Message-ID: <86ef36n0rn.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <354C947E-1341-4E9E-B77E-081B721CCAE4@icloud.com> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="65003"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 04 01:43:26 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hiouM-000GoY-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2019 01:43:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41892 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hiouL-0002tA-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:43:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hiotq-0002rJ-0H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hiote-0006w1-1a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:33854 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hiotd-0005fG-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:42:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hiotO-000Fo1-Bo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2019 01:42:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:l+mrDfvUuXuCsOo1O/t2sYk5ER0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121094 Archived-At: M.R.P. zensky via help-gnu-emacs wrote: > Hello I have a Mac book and Mac Pro Desktop > both systems have dual boot Mac and Ubuntu. > Any thoughts on how to set up emacs so that > it will sync with my different systems. > Maybe to make it more simple to just use > emacs in Ubuntu. I have an external hard > drive that is visible in any of the Operating > systems. Any Ideas on how best to use emacs > with this config? In theory, there shouldn't be a difference! Obviously, any OS-specific stuff will only work for the specific OS! But you don't typically add such stuff to Emacs, do you? What you add is Elisp that won't even reach the OS level, as Emacs and only Emacs will deal with that. In practice, the more you configure, tweak, and add, the more overhead work will be required too keep everything in synch. So either don't do it (too much), or perhaps choose one OS to have as your main one (the Ubuntu one, perhaps, in this case at least :)) and then just have a minimal setup on the other one. Speaking more broadly, Emacs isn't exactly like a motor vehicle that needs to be trimmed to fit a particular off-road track... It shouldn't require a lot of work just to work. It is fun to muck around with, but to do it in more than one place sounds like a full time job :) and if it should also be nsynch'd up to some interpretation of the word, that sounds like not only a full time job, but also an unpleasant one at that... So let it it be. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal