From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Guido Van Hoecke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to have two parallel emacs environments? Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:46:02 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395701188 27249 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2014 22:46:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:46:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 23:46:37 2014 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 1WSDdd-0007G5-CL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:46:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSDdd-0006PX-3F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSDdG-0006J7-Ml for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSDd8-0001z9-9f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:46:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ee0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c00::232]:58565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSDd7-0001z0-Vn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ee0-f50.google.com with SMTP id c13so4947845eek.37 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:46:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=7/fyCCEF/L7Tw/7ioKixMOYMuPOpbP52qkYqfA9gS04=; b=mPSBI+QA/7LNU8SjUI/F3n9YNBrSLv9vbNZi5r/+vnWV05W/ic+od8H3NlPuvRv+he pHbhPubVJ9Tw2d/1TNDRlB92hRyqkr972V1mDvIdGErTOSdMxsGyfHtBBptreFnXlSQT eaPfxThc0mZnV0n02ACbDFb3hK4M3JcVl/igTBZFryx/ZB7OhHCKfhbiHgouxh2bDGDi OlJMeqI6mol6V320auxb1W/rg6svQmLk6PPxcxTNsAi3ETVCTY/NoxUnb63MVZh9hThs QPRbohbNf9Y+7YXu28u5RUJt3rMH74L+r3DodD1AaYtxsSbhIHUg9D1Lxv/uAb180H+c Q7eA== X-Received: by 10.14.200.195 with SMTP id z43mr29210704een.52.1395701164927; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zac-3.local.vanhoecke.org (78-20-180-173.access.telenet.be. [78.20.180.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 45sm3016847eeh.9.2014.03.24.15.46.03 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:46:03 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c00::232 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:96733 Archived-At: Hi, I would like to reorganise and actualise my emacs current setup files. To facilitate this time consuming and laborious process I would really like to experiment in a temporary second emacs environment which would gradually be extended to eventually provide at least the support currently provided by my official setup. I was hoping that I could start an alternate emacs using the -u option so that I could get a separate instance using the growing new setup file. But obviously that does not work as it expects a user name, not an init file path. Is there any way to launch an emacs with a specific init file? Or is there a different approach to this problem? Thanks in advance for your suggestions and ideas, Guido -- The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.