From: abc <arcadiorubiogarcia@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting user-emacs-directory
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:26:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d2e473e9-b179-49cd-a62e-3ef45111a6ea@h60g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1754.1224635369.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Thanks for your reply.
I had already tried setting user-init-file and user-emacs-directory
from a .emacs in $HOME.
However, Emacs insists on writing stuff in my .emacs.d directory. In
particular it creates it and puts auto-save-list inside. Any ideas?
- Arcadio
On 22 oct, 02:25, Xavier Maillard <x...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like change the user directory (usually ~/.emacs.d) and the init
> file placing them inside ~/Library/Preferences/Emacs and ~/Library/
> Preferences/Emacs/Preferences.el, respectively. Currently I'm
> achieving this by using symbolic links.
>
> I have set up a minimal .emacs (in my $HOME directory) which is
> in charge of this (see below).
>
> (setq user-init-file "blah blah")
> (setq user-emacs-directory "my emacs.d directory")
> (add-to-list 'load-path .....) ;; long list of directories here
> (require 'xma-autoloads "/home/xma/usr/share/emacs/autoloads")
> (require 'slime-autoloads)
> (load user-init-file)
>
> Hope that'll help.
>
> Xavier
> --http://www.gnu.orghttp://www.april.orghttp://www.lolica.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-22 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 14:08 Setting user-emacs-directory abc
2008-10-22 0:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.1754.1224635369.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-22 14:26 ` abc [this message]
2008-11-12 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-13 0:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
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