From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kishore.r.318@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 13:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378329316 10691 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2013 21:15:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 21:15:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 04 23:15:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VHKQ1-0004JA-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:15:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHKQ0-0001oI-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:15:16 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.193.199 with SMTP id hq7mr1483710pac.5.1378327044140; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:37:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.133.65 with SMTP id pa1mr128059qeb.19.1378327043869; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!y3no1660019pbx.0!news-out.google.com!z6ni33820pbu.0!nntp.google.com!j7no277168qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=152.2.31.128; posting-account=O_jRdAoAAAAZzuMLk24YpQw0wBLBLPg6 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 152.2.31.128 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:37:23 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200978 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:15:04 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93248 Archived-At: Currently my .emacs file is found in /home So is my .emacs.d folder and I suppose some other files like diary, notes etc will be created in this folder. I find this really messy and I want all my emacs related files(including the .emacs) and folders in a single folder, say /home/EmacsHome How do I do that in Ubuntu 12.04? In windows I did this by setting an environment variable HOME to the path of EmacsHome. But, in Ubuntu, the HOME variable will be used for several other programs as well, so I dont want to change that.