From: Glenn Morris <gmorris+news@ast.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:06:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iyk7gd33lp.fsf@ast.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84r8alsey2.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de
Kai Großjohann wrote:
> Let's say you have a CVS work directory ~/work/dotfiles for your,
> well, dot files. Then you'd create two files .emacs and Makefile
> there and Makefile would look like this:
>
> install:
> ( cd $HOME; ln -s work/dotfiles/.emacs )
>
> After this, wherever you go, just
>
> mkdir ~/work
> cd ~/work
> cvs -d $YOUR_REPOSITORY co dotfiles
> cd dotfiles
> make install
>
> The above is for a fresh account. After you've done it once, just
>
> cd ~/work/dotfiles
> cvs up -dP
> make install
This sounds like a nice idea, but surely there is some faffing about
to be done with regards to authentication? In which case, does it
really gain you much over just
scp user@remotehost:.emacs ./
?
I suppose it does if you have a lot of config files you want to copy.
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2003-02-03 23:45 ` Loading local .emacs from remote machine Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-04 1:08 ` gebser
2003-02-05 16:33 ` bigfaceworm
2003-02-05 19:09 ` gebser
2003-02-07 22:12 ` Brian Palmer
2003-02-04 6:39 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-04 16:35 ` gebser
2003-02-04 17:30 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-04 21:51 ` gebser
2003-02-06 7:44 ` Mac
2003-02-06 13:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-06 14:06 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2003-02-06 15:12 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-06 15:42 ` Glenn Morris
[not found] <mailman.1406.1044395706.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-04 23:30 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-05 0:38 ` gebser
2003-02-05 0:50 ` David Kastrup
2003-02-05 12:45 ` gebser
2003-02-05 12:37 ` gebser
2003-02-05 12:51 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-05 15:17 ` gebser
2003-02-05 16:04 ` David Kastrup
2003-02-05 17:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-03 17:56 gebser
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