From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yaron Greenwald Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Using a different init file/directory? Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:32:42 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416711341 21280 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2014 02:55:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 02:55:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 23 03:55:34 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 1XsNKo-0005R1-El for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 03:55:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsNKn-0000zm-Rd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:55:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsNKT-0000zd-5X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:55:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsNKL-0006k0-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsNKL-0006hO-GM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XsNKK-000597-AZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 03:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 129.64.199.166 ([129.64.199.166]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 03:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from ygwald by 129.64.199.166 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 03:55:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 6 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.64.199.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:101122 Archived-At: Most other programs have a way of telling them to use a different init file: 'mutt -F <>', 'vi -i <>', etc. But I can't figure out how to do that in emacs. Is there a why? How/why not? Thanks.