Re: Remote .emacs file

[Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>> "Leonid Grinberg" <lgrinberg@gmail.com>:

  >> Does anyone out there know (of a way to do it, or of another
  >> way)?

  SB> What I've done is to version control my home directory with CVS
  SB> and run a CVS server on my home cable modem machine.  One of the
  SB> first things I do on a new linux/unix machine, or cygwin
  SB> installation, is to check out my home directory and I'm up and
  SB> running.

  SB> I even get version control of the files...:-)

  SB> (Note that even though the entire home directory has to be
  SB> version controlled, not all files in it has to be.  And they
  SB> aren't in my case.  I only actually version control all of the
  SB> stuff that used to take me the better part of a day to set up on
  SB> a new machine)


I do a similar thing, but use unison which is a file synchroniser
rather than a version control. Works like a charm and has the
advantage over a remote .emacs that it works when the network is down!

Phil