From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customize versus own expressions in .emacs Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:45:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vf75243e.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <81zmwefys7.fsf@adboyd.com> <87is2yylbj.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <81mzsau5o1.fsf@adboyd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112892293 29492 80.91.229.2 (7 Apr 2005 16:44:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 16:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 18:44:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJa6t-0003Bt-TA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:44:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJZgE-0004IN-O2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJZft-0004Gw-Fo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:16:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJZft-0004Gm-CV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJa9Q-0004TS-TQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from lab45.ma.utexas.edu (mail@lab45.ma.utexas.edu [128.83.133.159]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id j37Gjwf02371; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from jcorneli by lab45.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DJa8k-0001YF-00; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:45:58 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <81mzsau5o1.fsf@adboyd.com> (dave@adboyd.com) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25469 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25469 >>> What I found works well for me is to put a bit of elisp at the beginning >>> of my .emacs file which tells emacs to look in my own .emacs.d directory >>> and load the files in that directory. >> >> And you aren't going to share this piece of code? We have to work it out >> for ourselves? :-> >> > > Hey, half the fun of emacs is working that sort of stuff out yourself! > However, if someone really does want my bit of unworthy code, I'll provide > it. > I want it. I'm not looking for fun, I'm using Emacs! :-> As I think I may have mentioned somewhere else on this thread, I have an alias causes emacs to run with '-l joes_loads.el' command line argument. This is, to me, a better idea than putting your own "own" expressions in .emacs or even having the command to load them in the .emacs, except in the case of code that really needs to be there (e.g. as with frame configs), because this way you can drop the flag or change it. And, as you see, it is really a 0 line program.