Emacs, dotfiles, network

Emacs, dotfiles, network

[Rick Crawford]

I'm a relative newcomer to Emacs.  At home I've got two computers,
basically a desktop and a server.  When I'm away from home I'm
generally connecting via ssh to the server, whereas at home I stick to
the desktop box.

So I'm starting to use features of emacs like the calendar and
todo-mode more and more.  The problem is that I have separate
calendar, todo, and diary files, a separate ~/.emacs and ~/.gnus file,
etc.

Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this problem?  Do any of you
simply use an NFS mount to share config files for machines across a
network?  Would using NIS to share a physical home directory be a
better way to go?  I'd love some advice from anyone who has experience
trying to share an emacs environment across a network.
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Re: Emacs, dotfiles, network

[Kin Cho]

Assuming you share your .emacs at work and at home, you can setq
variables like diary-file to point to the right directory
depending on the environment in which emacs is run.

-kin

Rick Crawford <rick@vroop.com> writes:

> I'm a relative newcomer to Emacs.  At home I've got two computers,
> basically a desktop and a server.  When I'm away from home I'm
> generally connecting via ssh to the server, whereas at home I stick to
> the desktop box.
> 
> So I'm starting to use features of emacs like the calendar and
> todo-mode more and more.  The problem is that I have separate
> calendar, todo, and diary files, a separate ~/.emacs and ~/.gnus file,
> etc.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this problem?  Do any of you
> simply use an NFS mount to share config files for machines across a
> network?  Would using NIS to share a physical home directory be a
> better way to go?  I'd love some advice from anyone who has experience
> trying to share an emacs environment across a network.
> -- 

Re: Emacs, dotfiles, network

[Brian Nelson]

Rick Crawford <rick@vroop.com> writes:

> I'm a relative newcomer to Emacs.  At home I've got two computers,
> basically a desktop and a server.  When I'm away from home I'm
> generally connecting via ssh to the server, whereas at home I stick to
> the desktop box.
>
> So I'm starting to use features of emacs like the calendar and
> todo-mode more and more.  The problem is that I have separate
> calendar, todo, and diary files, a separate ~/.emacs and ~/.gnus file,
> etc.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this problem?  Do any of you
> simply use an NFS mount to share config files for machines across a
> network?  Would using NIS to share a physical home directory be a
> better way to go?  I'd love some advice from anyone who has experience
> trying to share an emacs environment across a network.

I use a version control system (Subversion in my case) to manage my
dotfiles across multiple machines.  It provide a nice safety net too, if
I screw something up.

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