From: "François Févotte" <francois.fevotte@ensta.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 15539@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15539: Setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:28:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAADsv94rKAOMHRJ-gyQEjH5yWanktocVjACTpt9B12XHbHo16g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8uk2yhg4m2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hi,
thanks for your comment.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
> I'm not saying it's the right solution, but you could use an environment
> variable (eg EMACS_USER_DIRECTORY) rather than a command-line switch to
> control this. This would be consistent with eg EMACSDATA, and also I
> think with how other applications normally let you control where they
> look for their init files (?). But on the other hand, environment
> variables can be easier to overlook than explicit flags eg when
> debugging.
Yes, you're right, this is a very good idea. I'll develop a new patch
for this as soon as I can.
> On the other other hand, the OP could just do
>
> ln -s mine.d .emacs.d
>
> so I'm not sure what the point of this feature would be, unless eg you
> frequently want to swap between different .emacs.d's?
I'm not sure about the OP's use case, but I can tell about mine: at
work, I try to maintain a sensible set of init files for my co-workers
to use (with the very outdated default version that we have installed
by default on our systems: 23.2). On the other hand, on my machine, I
maintain a locally-installed Emacs version that is more up-to-date. In
order to maintain both sets of init files, I need to be able to run
both versions of Emacs at the same time, which prevents me from
symlinking ~/.emacs.d/
There are reddit and stackexchange questions hinting at the same kind of use:
http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/2y1b3a/how_can_i_easily_keep_different_emacsd_folders/
http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/4253/221
Since these questions concern a broader audience, do you think that we
should add emacs-devel to this discussion?
Thanks,
François
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-16 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-06 17:08 bug#15539: 24.3; setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation Mike Carifio
2015-03-13 15:01 ` bug#15539: Setting " François Févotte
2015-03-16 0:36 ` Glenn Morris
2015-03-16 7:28 ` François Févotte [this message]
2015-03-17 10:08 ` François Févotte
2016-02-15 10:31 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Alexis
2016-02-15 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 4:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-25 5:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-03 22:32 ` bug#15539: comment Max
2016-11-04 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-04 12:42 ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2016-11-04 12:55 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-04 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-14 18:43 ` Glenn Morris
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