From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gebser@ameritech.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:09:48 -0500 (EST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2bd747c7.0302050833.67c479d8@posting.google.com> Reply-To: gebser@ameritech.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044472335 22129 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 19:12:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gUxw-0005ka-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:12:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gUzY-0001yf-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gUwe-00012r-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gUwW-0000zU-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:10:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailhost2-bcvloh.bcvloh.ameritech.net ([66.73.20.44] helo=mailhost.bcv2.ameritech.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gUvd-0000ZN-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from heidegger.mousecar.net ([65.43.212.228]) by mailhost.bcv2.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP <20030205190931.HKQD16218.mailhost.bcv2.ameritech.net@heidegger.mousecar.net>; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:09:31 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-To: bigfaceworm In-Reply-To: <2bd747c7.0302050833.67c479d8@posting.google.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6342 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6342 Thanks much, BFW, That's what I was first looking for. ken bigfaceworm at 08:33 (UTC-0800) on 5 Feb 2003 said: = gebser@ameritech.net wrote in message news:... = > = > My first thought was simply to edit my own (local) ".emacs" and putting = > it on his machine (as, say, .emacs-ken, then doing "emacs -t = > .emacs-ken"). I was looking for something even simpler and more = > discrete than that. (Sheesh, I'm a lazy SOB.) = = I remember playing around with this. My issue was that = the color changes my .emacs set up wouldn't come into effect = if I manually loaded the .emacs. But this .emacs (on the remote = machine) seemed to work just fine: = = = (eval-after-load 'dot-emacs = (load-file "/bigfaceworm@localmachine.com:/path/to/bigfaceworm/.emacs")) = = (provide 'dot-emacs) = = = hth, = = BFW = _______________________________________________ = Help-gnu-emacs mailing list = Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org = http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs = -- Happy Gui-Wei 4700