From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: JIT Emacs parallel world Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:50:19 +0200 Message-ID: <86sh10y5vo.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86a7naart0.fsf@zoho.com> <861s8laq8t.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540050544 4217 195.159.176.226 (20 Oct 2018 15:49:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 15:49:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 20 17:49:00 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gDtUq-0000zS-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:49:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDtWw-0006DF-S0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59926) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDtWN-0006D7-Sd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDtWI-0007nz-Rp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38495 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gDtWI-0007m5-Jo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:50:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gDtU6-0000Eo-KB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:48:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:w+xsHld+HndhW3/KVGY9WhtTwfI= 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: 2.1.21 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:118369 Archived-At: Phillip Lord wrote: > Why do you need to have two .emacs? If you > are going to move from Emacs-24 to Emacs-26, > then you need to *port* your existing .emacs. > If you are worried about going backward just > copy it, or version it. I have 100+ Elisp files (written by me) and it all works like a Swiss watch from Terra Prima, and I know mucking around with it on a large scale will break Emacs, and I need Emacs to fix it, and every time that happened was very unpleasant and frustrating job, so no, I stick to the repos' Emacs if it can't be done otherwise. > If you really need two .emacs, then you have > to launch at least one Emacs with `-q -l > ~/.emacs-27" or equivalent. You can use this > to reset `user-emacs-directory'. Yeah, I knew it would come to this. So thanks for saying it. Now I know it also needs to happen... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573