From: Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change location of .emacs
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:05:12 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnetouu8.cpb.bergv@bolmikolke.math.uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871wkjpiaz.fsf@gmail.com
In article <871wkjpiaz.fsf@gmail.com>, Hadron wrote:
>
> A quick google shows me I can change the "user" with -u to pick up that
> users .emacs, but how to just say I want MY ".emacs" which is in another
> directory? I wish to keep my .emacs in my "lisp" directory and tell
> emacs about it on the command line. Possible?
To learn about emacs maybe not google but read the documentation? See
command line arguments section in the manual, you seem to be looking
for
emacs -q -l lispdirectory/your.emacs.file
hth
--
Maarten Bergvelt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 16:49 change location of .emacs Hadron
2007-02-21 17:05 ` Maarten Bergvelt [this message]
2007-02-21 17:20 ` Hadron
2007-02-21 17:36 ` Maarten Bergvelt
2007-02-21 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4858.1172085400.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-21 19:33 ` Maarten Bergvelt
2007-02-22 4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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