From: ross@rosslaird.com (Ross A. Laird)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Startup files data in different locations?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:09:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3yjuaw0.fsf@rosslaird.info> (raw)
I have my .emacs and .gnus in ~/ as usual. I'd like to back them up
using Dropbox. I know that I could store them in my Dropbox folder and
symlink them to ~/, but I wonder if there is a better way. Could I copy
the settings in these files, place them in files in the Dropbox folder,
and then include only the load command for these files in .emacs and
.gnus? This way, I could keep my settings secure and could load them on
my Linux machines and my Mac with a single line in the startup files of
each system. No symlinks (which I am not too familiar with and don't use
much) would be required. So:
On each system, .emacs has one line:
(load-file "/home/ross/Dropbox/emacs_startup.el")
(load-file "/home/ross/Dropbox/gnus_startup.el")
Is this workable?
Cheers.
Ross
--
Ross A. Laird, PhD
www.rosslaird.com
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2010-04-01 3:09 Ross A. Laird [this message]
2010-04-01 12:00 ` Startup files data in different locations? J. David Boyd
2010-04-01 13:57 ` Gary .
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