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 specify path to .emacs.d Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:46:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87ehkggum4.fsf@yahoo.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351590423 27138 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2012 09:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:47:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 30 10:47:13 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 1TT8Pf-0003Rh-86 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:47:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TT8PX-0008Ti-1x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TT8PM-0008RC-36 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TT8PG-0003ng-5e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TT8PF-0003mi-Qz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TT8PK-0002zW-2u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:46:50 +0100 Original-Received: from geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.131.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:46:50 +0100 Original-Received: from theonewiththeevillook by geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:46:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8nn1nH4sttpTDwiL6xMkOADV6Lc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:87490 Archived-At: 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. -- Nico.