From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maarten Bergvelt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change location of .emacs Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Department of Mathematics, UIUC. Message-ID: References: <871wkjpiaz.fsf@gmail.com> <87tzxfmnqq.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: bergv@uiuc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172079787 2577 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2007 17:43:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:43:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 21 18:43:04 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 1HJvUX-0004LH-JY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:42:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJvUX-0002qD-5W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:42:57 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.ks.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bolmikolke.math.uiuc.edu Original-X-Trace: news.ks.uiuc.edu 1172079363 5529 130.126.108.244 (21 Feb 2007 17:36:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news+abuse@ks.uiuc.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:36:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145779 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:41383 Archived-At: In article <87tzxfmnqq.fsf@gmail.com>, Hadron wrote: > Maarten Bergvelt writes: > >> 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 > > There is no "-l" option mentioned in my emacs command line "C2. initial options" > startup section other than when runniDng emacs in batch. Did you look in the emacs manual? Look in the options index under load. It is in the section on Action Arguments, not in Initial Options. -- Maarten Bergvelt