From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:24:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <upsdrqkxn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eeptb6$8tq$1@sea.gmane.org> (message from Patrick Drechsler on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:09:10 +0200)
> From: Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>
> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:09:10 +0200
>
> Can I put a directory ".emacs.d" including an init.el somewhere under
> Windows/Cygwin so that it will be recognized by a default Emacs
> installation (C:\.emacs.d\init.el is ignored when there is no C:\.emacs
> or C:\_emacs)?
Why can't you set the HOME environment variable on Windows to point to
the place where you keep your .emacs.d directory?
To keep the bulk of init.el in a single place, you could have a
minimal ~/.emacs.d/init.el, one for each OS, that loads the rest from
a single place.
> Furthermore: What would be the current Emacs variable to tweak for using an
>
> IF windows
> use this path
> ELSEIF Cygwin
> use another path
> ELSE ;; linux
> use yet another path
>
> construct?
Try system-configuration.
> Since both versions are not stable I am wondering if they are compatible
> or if I should chose another combination...
Quite compatible.
> If they are compatible: What is the best approach for a multi-platform
> install file?
What do you mean by ``install file''?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-20 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-19 23:09 single init file/directory for windows and linux using version control svn or cvs Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-20 3:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-09-21 10:21 ` Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-20 7:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-21 10:23 ` Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-21 1:58 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-21 10:25 ` Patrick Drechsler
2006-09-21 11:53 ` CHENG Gao
2006-09-21 12:15 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-21 20:15 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-22 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-23 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-23 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-22 2:41 ` CHENG Gao
2006-09-22 12:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-22 14:31 ` CHENG Gao
2006-09-23 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-23 10:17 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-21 2:51 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-09-21 10:25 ` Patrick Drechsler
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