From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Multiple .emacs files Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:06:21 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <87pse5f4em.fld@apaflo.com> <87irjton8r.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158084516 30980 80.91.229.2 (12 Sep 2006 18:08:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:08:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 12 20:08:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNCgG-0002GD-Rq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:08:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNCgG-0001md-CN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNCfz-0001mY-TV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNCfx-0001je-3V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNCfw-0001jW-SH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GNChU-0000ck-BT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:09:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GNCfZ-00026E-32 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:07:37 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:07:37 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:07:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: <87irjton8r.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> 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:37310 Archived-At: Tim X wrote: > Mathias Dahl 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