From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Remote .emacs file Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:44:27 +0100 Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Message-ID: References: <8642ba650604251700q3143726cv4a5db7a3b5341206@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146242430 29991 80.91.229.2 (28 Apr 2006 16:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 28 18:40:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZW0w-0000eI-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZW0w-00088M-8F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:40:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!pln-w!lotsanews.com!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!news.ncl.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dinley.ncl.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk 1146239067 27075 128.240.150.78 (28 Apr 2006 15:44:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@newcastle.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:44:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hqF2oyf8h0l5JslwHky2RZ+32ps= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139080 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:34704 Archived-At: >>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang writes: >>>>> "Leonid Grinberg" : >> 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