From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to specify path to .emacs.d
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:51:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbofjjwgw.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12027.1351637586.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> emacs --eval '(setq user-emacs-directory "my/path/.emacs.d/")'
The --eval argument is executed after reading your .emacs (or
.emacs.d/init.el) file, so clearly that won't work.
> C-h v does show that user-emacs-directory has the /my/path/.emacs.d
> value, however.
Yes, but only later when you do C-h v, not while trying to load the
.emacs file.
Stefan
next parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-31 0:51 UTC|newest]
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2012-10-31 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-10-30 22:53 How to specify path to .emacs.d Barry OReilly
2012-10-31 10:26 ` Nicolas Richard
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2012-10-29 20:37 Barry OReilly
2012-10-29 22:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-30 9:46 ` Nicolas Richard
2012-10-30 13:30 ` Peter Münster
2012-10-30 14:44 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-30 16:09 ` Evan Driscoll
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