From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: "Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to specify path to .emacs.d
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:14:48 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9v4dnof.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehkggum4.fsf@yahoo.fr> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:46:43 +0100")
"Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:
> Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo@gmail.com> writes:
>> Specifying a .emacs.d location as a command line flag would be a big
>> help.
>
> You could use apropos-value to list all variables which refer to
> .emacs.d and then modify those from command line using --eval (although
> sometimes that directory is hardcoded, e.g. in startup.el as a fallback
> value). In particular, user-emacs-directory is of interest, and I'd
> trying changing it, then run apropos-value to see what remains.
`user-emacs-directory' is a defconst.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-30 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-29 20:37 How to specify path to .emacs.d Barry OReilly
2012-10-29 22:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-30 9:46 ` Nicolas Richard
2012-10-30 13:30 ` Peter Münster
2012-10-30 14:44 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2012-10-30 16:09 ` Evan Driscoll
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2012-10-30 22:53 Barry OReilly
2012-10-31 10:26 ` Nicolas Richard
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2012-10-31 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier
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