From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Drechsler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:21:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: 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 1158834185 22195 80.91.229.2 (21 Sep 2006 10:23:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 12:23:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLhm-0001xc-RK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:22:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLhm-0007GT-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:22:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLhd-0007GO-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLhb-0007G3-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLhb-0007G0-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:22:43 -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 1GQLl5-0007JC-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:26:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GQLh6-0001n8-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:22:12 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-084-057-068-213.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.57.68.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:22:12 +0200 Original-Received: from patrick by dslb-084-057-068-213.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:22:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-057-068-213.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60057 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Patrick Drechsler >> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:09:10 +0200 >> >> Can I put a directory ".emacs.d" including an init.el somewhere under >> Windows/Cygwin so that it will be recognized by a default Emacs >> installation (C:\.emacs.d\init.el is ignored when there is no C:\.emacs >> or C:\_emacs)? > > Why can't you set the HOME environment variable on Windows to point to > the place where you keep your .emacs.d directory? Thanks for this advice, exactly what I was looking for! >> Furthermore: What would be the current Emacs variable to tweak for using an >> >> IF windows >> use this path >> ELSEIF Cygwin >> use another path >> ELSE ;; linux >> use yet another path >> >> construct? > > Try system-configuration. Great, thanks again! Regards Patrick