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 18:45:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6A67526C-73FE-4519-B36F-0360A9AFF1C0@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378334749 4802 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2013 22:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 22:45:49 +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 00:45:52 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 1VHLpf-0000UV-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:45:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHLpe-0004aZ-O7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42101) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHLpF-0004aU-9l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHLpE-0006Uk-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::22b]:34165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHLpE-0006UU-75 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id p57so864002wes.2 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:45:22 -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=SHbl7Q8aLeA7I/4PweHbjd22yZWPsxgbGcYAmUIX5rw=; b=zYPEEQTzVckQI0XZ+MMyH/ycEdyvzL6AjtBr+o/UuJraLp1A0JTAdlNrVgFPr2CWZk 3nLLEAUDqmTtRO1lc7hOnndOOd9xVA0XojD4UqDIhYxt5rJ6tf5dndS6pMWanU3KPl3c +IeLTUn8TshWXdczk+XxNw4GrEwXdh4uQ7iXHt95qx91fyFmVnYddz5RpmPyEmytIBRY HU24TyNNVm3Zns1PfpYYr7kBqegi9WBmxwjmMJa1aVMPAagbQtSLy1b6k9Hqzhqp0ixJ uJR7CfEoK3GNIaV9R5yusK+O+HvP8dDQQ9Kpa8n3skH/uwPVrNzfTrPouH/pL0bCVYdt tdhg== X-Received: by 10.194.11.38 with SMTP id n6mr4522725wjb.25.1378334722900; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.54.8 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 15:45:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6A67526C-73FE-4519-B36F-0360A9AFF1C0@Web.DE> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::22b 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:93250 Archived-At: Yes, I was looking into that. I dont quite understand how to change EMACSLOADPATH. I did these: (setq default-directory "~/EmacsHome/") (setq user-emacs-directory "~/EmacsHome/.emacs.d/") but I do not think that it did any difference because: 1. When the startup screen comes, I click on "Open Home Directory" and it always opens up the HOME directory which is defined system-wide as /home/kishore. 2. Any autogenerated file by emacs is stored in the HOME directory as defined system-wide. 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? On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 04.09.2013 um 22:37 schrieb kishore.r.318@gmail.com: > > > in Ubuntu, the HOME variable will be used for several other programs as > well, so I dont want to change that. > > What about EMACSLOADPATH and the variable load-path? > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > There's no place like ~ > =96 (UNIX Guru) > >