From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kishore Rathinavel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:12:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6A67526C-73FE-4519-B36F-0360A9AFF1C0@Web.DE> <95A64457-93F2-4067-88E0-857EA8745259@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378336341 20406 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2013 23:12:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 23:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 05 01:12:24 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 1VHMFK-0002LJ-BH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 01:12:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHMFJ-0001Ay-8P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHMF6-0001Al-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHMF3-0004zc-C2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:12:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::22e]:41691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHMF3-0004zQ-4u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id k14so1013577wgh.1 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:12:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=88pYDf/+7lBGNh+rsRqOKd0L+Q9GupmUwddKsKSLe98=; b=NJOMIDAk/H0zrgHcHhl5qhkFD1R31I/cXI1jexEqb0WsotAjkR/plB6gpqdvUdFBvB XRwQFng/d72dhtYyAi914VWkimUH9l6FwXTcYt+zjNb+dyug2EGKZFk7XVXl5e7cZ2DN 9fq1No7NodRgNLzAfUD4Ahsb6Tly8mle2txgpW1aPd3g2PXlQ1HL5p1Cbxmp/3wu0jH4 5+uWWDdaBWEZ0vtlDgmMNMnlOcKWKvdwbpe5t0TI4wDjNxAma8ta1DmXC3gycYCJvwO1 cgP/0AZLH/xRzStZLN9gcBwPrAETaOCBMwQ5O/S5Miy/icZasEFMqHtMzQ5LMfMMISQR WilQ== X-Received: by 10.194.48.74 with SMTP id j10mr3859315wjn.41.1378336324203; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:12:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.54.8 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 16:12:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <95A64457-93F2-4067-88E0-857EA8745259@web.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c00::22e X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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:93252 Archived-At: In a terminal, I did: $ env I got a bunch of variables with their assigned paths $ env EMACSLOADPATH=~/EmacsHome/ I got the bunch of variables above and also EMACSLOADPATH=~/EmacsHome/ added at the end $ env Now, the list of variables does not have EMACSLOADPATH=~/EmacsHome/ at the end Anyways, I tried opening Emacs after the executing the 2nd command above, and I have the same problem still. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 05.09.2013 um 00:45 schrieb Kishore Rathinavel: > > > I think what I want is to somehow change the way emacs starts up and > force > > it to look into a different folder for my .emacs. > > > > Is this possible? > > env EMACSLOADPATH=~/EmacsHome emacs ... Did you try that? > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. > - Sigmund Freud > >