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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: suggestion for portable emacs customizations
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:01:31 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc60u3xw.fsf@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKoxK+7bnXe2wfYg7PGUjW-F0r=bSxszSLokAYxpxS4g6TyftQ@mail.gmail.com> (Luca Ferrari's message of "Thu, 30 May 2013 10:04:09 +0200")

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> writes:

> I'm beginning to have a lot of virtual machines where I have to run
> emacs, and I would like to have them all configured the same way with
> the same extensions (e.g., autocomplete) and configurations. Is there
> a smart way to provide a kind of "distribution" so that I can ease and
> automate the configuration of the multiple installations?
> The first thing  was thinking about was to set up a ~/.emacs directory
> will all the lisp extensions and to raw copy it, but there could be a
> smarter way...
> Any idea?

There are quite a few suggestions here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1d2qiv/how_to_make_an_emacs_configuration_that_based_on/

In short, use ELPA packages when you can (but don't check in the elpa
subdirectory), and use git submodules for the rest of the packages.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-30 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-30  8:04 suggestion for portable emacs customizations Luca Ferrari
2013-05-30 11:01 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2013-05-30 12:29   ` Luca Ferrari
     [not found] <mailman.654.1369901061.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-30  8:42 ` Fabrice Niessen

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