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From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to have two parallel emacs environments?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:57:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n2m9n68.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28urzfc5x.fsf@gmail.com> (Guido Van Hoecke's message of "Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:46:02 +0100")

Hello,

Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> writes:
> I was hoping that I could start an alternate emacs using the -u option so
> that I could get a separate instance using the growing new setup file.

You can start emacs with a modified HOME variable~:
HOME=/tmp/a-new-home emacs

Then emacs will look for /tmp/a-new-home/.emacs. One advantage is that
the package initialization happens normally. One advantage or
disadvantage (depending on your POV) is be that if you refer to files
relative to ~/ in /tmp/a-new-home/.emacs, they'll in fact be relative to
/tmp/a-new-home and not /home/yourusername/

-- 
Nico.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-24 22:46 How to have two parallel emacs environments? Guido Van Hoecke
2014-03-24 22:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-03-24 23:02   ` Guido Van Hoecke
2014-03-25 12:41   ` Luca Ferrari
     [not found]   ` <mailman.18153.1395751287.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-25 12:54     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-03-25 16:05       ` Guido Van Hoecke
2014-03-25 17:57 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2014-03-25 20:08   ` Guido Van Hoecke
2014-03-27  7:52     ` Luca Ferrari
2014-03-27 10:45       ` Guido Van Hoecke

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