Re: Multiple .emacs files

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Tim X wrote:
> Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:
>>
>>>> I have played a bit with the -u option, but have yet to get it to work
>>>> with a config file named .emacsT
>>>    emacs -q -l ~/.emacsT
>> A bit of a warning: I think I saw someone mentioning that doing the
>> above was not exactly like switching your init file. What you do with
>> the above is turn init file loading off and at the same time telling
>> emacs to load another file. I am not sure but maybe things like
>> Customize might not work as you expect (not saving to the .emacsT
>> file).
>>
>> Someone who knows more can probably fill in here, or you can search
>> the archives.
>>
> 
> I have seen others report exactly this problem, so I think it is a
> real concern. In particular, you may find that when you go to save
> customize settings, it will fail or save it where you did not expect.
> There is a variable that customize uses which may get around this
> problem if you set it explicitly, but I seem to remember someone
> reporting problems getting this to work as desired/expected.

Two variables, actually: user-init-file and custom-file.  Even if there
are some lingering bugs, it would be a good idea to put something like
this as the the first form in Floyd's ~/.emacsT file:

(setq user-init-file load-file-name)

-- 
Kevin