From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Remote .emacs file
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:44:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1wvhr9gk.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1036.1146160561.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>>>> "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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-28 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-26 0:00 Remote .emacs file Leonid Grinberg
2006-04-26 0:25 ` Denis Bueno
2006-04-26 17:12 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-04-27 17:43 ` Steinar Bang
[not found] ` <mailman.1036.1146160561.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-28 15:44 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
[not found] <mailman.944.1146009626.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-26 0:20 ` liyer.vijay
2006-04-26 16:52 ` Anselm Helbig
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