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From: ross@rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alternate location for .emacs?
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:04:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlc8hufd.fsf@rosslaird.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pco3aa0awbb.fsf@math.ntnu.no

Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:

> + Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>:
>
>> Am 16.06.2009 um 19:13 schrieb Ross A. Laird:
>>
>>> I would like to store my .emacs in a location other than ~/.
>>> Is this possible?
>>
>>
>> It's not that easy ... (finding the right decision)
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Are there more possible ways? Just one for more than a hand full, half
>> a dozen!
>
> You forgot the most obvious. What I do: ~/.emacs is a symlink to the
> real .emacs (which is kept in a directory of stuff I maintain in cvs).

Thanks for all the help.

,----
| You forgot the most obvious. What I do: ~/.emacs is a symlink to the
| real .emacs (which is kept in a directory of stuff I maintain in cvs).
`----

This is exactly what I was looking for. I want to keep my .emacs in my
bazaar directory.

-- 
Ross A. Laird, PhD
www.rosslaird.info





  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-16 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-16 17:13 Alternate location for .emacs? Ross A. Laird
2009-06-16 17:52 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.721.1245174752.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-16 18:05   ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-06-16 19:04     ` Ross A. Laird [this message]
2009-06-16 20:35 ` Bill White
     [not found] <mailman.719.1245172417.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-16 17:33 ` B. T. Raven

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