From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to specify path to .emacs.d Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:14:48 +0530 Message-ID: <87a9v4dnof.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ehkggum4.fsf@yahoo.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351608197 23174 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2012 14:43:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Nicolas Richard" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 30 15:43:26 2012 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 1TTD2K-0008JT-Ih for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:43:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTD2C-0008W1-BR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59165) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTD20-0008Vk-SN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTD1u-0001oH-7u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:52943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTD1u-0001o7-22 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id fa10so246385pad.0 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:42:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=nSSCepxfpffotldN1X0TSnP41OtHzjtS/GDWMAp7+Co=; b=QHQv8z1yWE8imjlRiZaMO5vEmzvByQEmE5amir/LijWgUiHykmD4kLPiR/BC8w82Si n7vzGBhuEuQBbG2SVhuhewseZbXD+s6Mlv9dHkFH5IFhBru93L7+hi46371NYkqx/IzB CGZ8MHEJEM/0TA5ixr9DD65QIDgmziisoZnTP8XLB5YGnU1dSDl8BUsDbuhZEVBZkE0O CBxtTBBUab6NcUePwsApL+XD9vtYQHiCagH40ZWP8dkQHX+qYFZrQTdmb7u/U4uOtbVx y314QG7R/pMBGZ2pehaO0A7P/lXWlOIav+NLH7e4woTzZOUnsVO6eV5eZFgBm5VxDg+m +7zA== Original-Received: by 10.68.227.162 with SMTP id sb2mr104899337pbc.4.1351608176936; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([115.241.62.96]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e9sm498678paz.28.2012.10.30.07.42.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:42:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ehkggum4.fsf@yahoo.fr> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:46:43 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.220.41 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:87492 Archived-At: "Nicolas Richard" writes: > Barry OReilly 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. --