From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT: version control of .el files in NT Emacs
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:52:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r38rzzl6.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871t0stkqu.fsf@gmail.com
Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
>> You probably noticed that you need to adjust the load-path. A robust way
>> of doing that is to put in your_el_repo/emacs.el :
>>
>> (add-to-list 'load-path (file-name-directory load-file-name))
>>
>> It is also is useful to put this
>>
>> (setq user-init-file load-file-name)
>>
>> at the beginning of your emacs.el file in your_el_repo. Look up the
>> docstring for the user-init-file variable to see why.
>>
>
> How does this help? Because I have just 2 lines in the $HOME/.emacs
If you always use absolute paths and don't plan to change them, not
much, other than noise. The lines I suggested makes possible to move
your files to another directory requiring only a change to $HOME/.emacs.
And by not setting user-init-file some features will try to
inspect/modify $HOME/.emacs instead of your_el_repo/emacs.el.
> (setq user-emacs-directory "c:/gnu/initfiles/.emacs.d/" )
> (load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.emacs")
>
> And in the c:/gnu/initfiles/.emacs file I hard coded paths like
>
> (load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.text_config.el")
Prepending those files with a dot is not a good idea. The dot means that
the files are hidden on most GNU/Linux file browsers and might confuse
some tools on windows, that expect file names to obey the name.extension
format.
Besides, load-file is an interactive function that calls `load'. With
my suggested adjustment to load-path you can simply use
(load "text_config.el")
or simply
(load "text_config")
which will also work if you ever decide to byte-compile your config files.
> I get it that .sh_history, .smex_history and other .history*
> files used/created by various packages will be still created in
> $HOME/.emacs but those are fairly transient stuff aren't they?
Yes, I don't care about those either.
One thing I do is to use a separate file for customizations:
(setq custom-file
(concat (file-name-directory load-file-name) "customizations.el"))
(load custom-file 't)
If you use custom themes you probably want to set custom-theme-directory
too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-10 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-08 17:32 OT: version control of .el files in NT Emacs Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-08 20:05 ` John Mastro
2016-09-08 23:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-09-09 4:50 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-09 7:38 ` tomas
2016-09-09 14:53 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-09 15:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-09-10 4:57 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-10 12:52 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2016-09-10 14:04 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-09-10 23:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
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