From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rainer Stengele Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to keep .emacs files in synch Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:03:46 +0200 Organization: ODN Onlinedienst Nordbayern GmbH -- http://www.odn.de/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191483641 12642 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2007 07:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 04 09:40:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IdLJz-00050B-BD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:40:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdLJu-00080R-Rw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:40:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.osn.de!diablo1.news.osn.de!news2.arglkargh.de!noris.net!news.odn.de!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.34.176.74 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@odn.de Original-X-Trace: news.odn.de 1191481425 212.34.176.74 (Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:03:45 MEST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:03:45 MEST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152595 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48102 Archived-At: kj schrieb: > I regularly work on various systems, and it's a bit of a chore to > keep my .emacs files in synch. I've tried various approaches, none > entirely satisfactory. The two issues that give me the most > headaches are 1) to automate the process whereby changes to one > system's .emacs file gets reflected on the .emacs files on other > systems; and 2) to manage those modifications that are applicable > to only one or a subset of the systems. > > I'd be interested to read how others solve this problem. > > Thanks! > > kj I use subversion to sync (and backup!) all emacs related config files. I also have an automatic "save files and checkin" procedure - started on my office pc after I left work to be sure I can checkout the latest files at home. In my .emacs file I switch configs depending on the hostname of the machine I am working on. My goal is to have one single .emacs file for all platforms. rainer