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: Re: How to have two parallel emacs environments? Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:08:48 +0100 Message-ID: References: <874n2m9n68.fsf@yahoo.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395778156 16657 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2014 20:09:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Nicolas Richard Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 21:09:25 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 1WSXey-0002lN-JS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:09:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43941 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSXey-0003yl-0T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSXee-0003yW-6O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSXeW-0005SS-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ee0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c00::234]:57121) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSXeW-0005RH-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ee0-f52.google.com with SMTP id e49so876937eek.11 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:08:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=xIreO5DA0U00QO6jWQtqUdneo3ii7Vkvt4HkQQF2hjY=; b=u5IJmQs5t3wPo/Wq3LuE5J3P+W+1iOCaq/ZEXZ9tXKhVRe/k5f5XBnM8YUJSZwIJTe okc753D4WU306Qpp0X50HvPRPtsK+r607KTIwZUnXp9Rw9u0OKDGVgLGT4MM591noP5K xmU4/tyXKzTUJgIcHDUiR6hi3JV7K0nJP0Epi+eFt1roY8WRZ4ZQlNSXsF8HKa7/Sah9 EiRpXelWhlLrpEgIxocc9A/9otnx5SPAoQdeOJrDlXfs8p1xoe44N7Sf9/fBVe4wWUjy enR1OBHT5pUcBPvNmMzm8WGZ+4/s6V49VYL1J+6IHqCESWoyerwQPYaLlS0L5f7Byiug vtQA== X-Received: by 10.15.36.6 with SMTP id h6mr12811100eev.54.1395778131281; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zac-3.vanhoecke.org (78-20-180-173.access.telenet.be. [78.20.180.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id a4sm42341990eep.12.2014.03.25.13.08.49 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:08:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <874n2m9n68.fsf@yahoo.fr> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:57:03 +0100") 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::234 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:96759 Archived-At: Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Richard writes: > Hello, > > Guido Van Hoecke writes: >> 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. > > You can start emacs with a modified HOME variable~: > HOME=/tmp/a-new-home emacs > > Then emacs will look for /tmp/a-new-home/.emacs. One advantage is that > the package initialization happens normally. One advantage or > disadvantage (depending on your POV) is be that if you refer to files > relative to ~/ in /tmp/a-new-home/.emacs, they'll in fact be relative to > /tmp/a-new-home and not /home/yourusername/ That's a clever way to solve the problem. The ~ problem neds to be taken into account but that's easily solvable. Thanks for the suggestion :) Guido -- Thus spake the master programmer: "When program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"