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From: "Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to specify path to .emacs.d
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:26:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqy7ey4n.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAFM41H1xXMMSe1S1whrmm3xDj_40=22i2bdxqcuWL283mzeG8Q@mail.gmail.com


Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo@gmail.com> writes:
> It did not work.  More precisely, Emacs did not load my/path/.emacs.d
> /init.el .  C-h v does show that user-emacs-directory has the /my/
> path/.emacs.d value, however.

Ok, I had not quite understood what you wanted to do. My suggestion
would then be to run emacs as:
emacs -q --eval '(setq user-emacs-directory "~/.my.other.emacs.d")' --eval '(load (concat user-emacs-directory "/init.el"))'

It is far from optimal but maybe it can work for you.

-- 
Nicolas.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-30 22:53 How to specify path to .emacs.d Barry OReilly
2012-10-31 10:26 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.12027.1351637586.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-10-31  0:51 ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-10-29 20:37 Barry OReilly
2012-10-29 22:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-30  9:46 ` Nicolas Richard
2012-10-30 13:30   ` Peter Münster
2012-10-30 14:44   ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-30 16:09 ` Evan Driscoll

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