From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: suggestion for portable emacs customizations Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:01:31 +0400 Message-ID: <87vc60u3xw.fsf@yandex.ru> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369911724 16864 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2013 11:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Luca Ferrari Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 30 13:02:05 2013 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 1Ui0cO-0007Wk-RR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 13:02:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui0cO-00043b-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42355) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui0c4-0003om-Pj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:01:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui0bx-0001Ea-9r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::229]:48090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui0bx-0001EU-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-la0-f41.google.com with SMTP id ee20so95494lab.0 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 04:01:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-antivirus:x-antivirus-status; bh=uZgr7ToovycKE4fMm57E4XmGZ5S0+TZSiywDjXFM8IM=; b=ixZun61C3Y/RObyZBA0Rg5AQpvmV4DmcsQA9lyVgDW+fZVg0J+07Plsg+APJSCb+lB Ha7Xjh+9JQey7G5LuEw6rY3KdOiA+tX7QgYVsaGIHlvG4VRnfY6B2qGNKjo50beludbk ca7cRzP2NXWV3qjY6D3Y2a5SdTmX6U/mR/ERgEvBblLn5ddTVk8AqLfjeYZhSXZmMQEI bzZ2f4YEh6vI5DXUI68DsyQpuB/lSXECt3M70hhB1PJnETXPaot5LovX2S/ReRkpXyq4 sqLrBcKiF+QfA3ON12KLyxSiWo8AD0fCpnCN9G6qjxOe38musE6/gdTwwfT2P+8BY1// ippA== X-Received: by 10.152.21.99 with SMTP id u3mr3327583lae.27.1369911695852; Thu, 30 May 2013 04:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from SOL ([178.252.98.87]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id g10sm17424236lag.10.2013.05.30.04.01.33 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 30 May 2013 04:01:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Luca Ferrari's message of "Thu, 30 May 2013 10:04:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130529-1, 30.05.2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::229 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:91163 Archived-At: Luca Ferrari 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.