From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:06:58 +0000 Organization: None Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <848ywwtur8.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <811y2ldexb.fsf@kwikemart.springfield.se> <84r8alsey2.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044540968 17908 80.91.224.249 (6 Feb 2003 14:16:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gmow-0004ee-00 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 15:16:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gmjo-0005tZ-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 09:10:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!newspeer.lavaseals.co.uk!zen.net.uk!130.88.203.18.MISMATCH!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!server1.netnews.ja.net!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xpc21.ast.cam.ac.uk X-Attribution: GM Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/directory/emacs.html) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SeG9aYgAHKegH6QjRwCVx/+OFXA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109858 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6363 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6363 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.