From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to have two parallel emacs environments? Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:57:03 +0100 Message-ID: <874n2m9n68.fsf@yahoo.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395770319 10100 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2014 17:58:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Guido Van Hoecke Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 18:58:48 2014 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 1WSVcc-0008I5-W0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:58:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVcc-00068t-Nf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVcC-0005sC-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVak-0008Ob-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:56:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:37456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVaj-0008OC-U5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:56:50 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap4EAHzCMVOkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABZxwWBMnSCJgEBBHkQCAMhJQ8BBA08E4dkAQMRrXWZZAFKDYcVF4dhhHGCHAeEOAEDlmCBbYY1hjOFSoMvPA Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 25 Mar 2014 18:56:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Guido Van Hoecke's message of "Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:46:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 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:96753 Archived-At: Hello, Guido Van Hoecke 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.