Re: Remote .emacs file

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> I am a long-time Perl programmer, but unfortunately only know
> Emacs-Lisp on a theoretical level. However, I do use Emacs a lot, and
> have a relatively small, but still useful .emacs file. It has
> configurations in it, without which I am starting to feel
> uncomfortable. I use Emacs on many different machines (~5), and it
> would be nice to have a standard .emacs file.
> 
> In Perl, I could easily put one on the web, and then have Perl
> download it and use eval() to load the functions in it. However, I do
> not know how to do this with Elisp.

So these computers do not share the same home directory?  Bummer.

Try this in each machine's ~/.emacs file:

(load "/@server:/path/to/your-dot-emacs" nil nil t)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Sr. Software Engineer, IHS