From: Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to specify path to .emacs.d
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:53:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFM41H1xXMMSe1S1whrmm3xDj_40=22i2bdxqcuWL283mzeG8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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>"Nicolas Richard" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Barry OReilly <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Specifying a .emacs.d location as a command line flag would be a big
>>> help.
>>
>> You could use apropos-value to list all variables which refer to
>> .emacs.d and then modify those from command line using --eval (although
>> sometimes that directory is hardcoded, e.g. in startup.el as a fallback
>> value). In particular, user-emacs-directory is of interest, and I'd
>> trying changing it, then run apropos-value to see what remains.
>
>`user-emacs-directory' is a defconst.
I removed ~/.emacs.d, verified no ~/.emacs, executed:
emacs --eval '(setq user-emacs-directory "my/path/.emacs.d/")'
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.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-30 22:53 Barry OReilly [this message]
2012-10-31 10:26 ` How to specify path to .emacs.d Nicolas Richard
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2012-10-31 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier
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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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