Yes, I run emacs differently on different machines. On the windows machine
I am on now, I have a shortcut that runs
C:\Users\jkitchin\Dropbox\software\emacs-24.3\bin\runemacs.exe -l
~/Dropbox/.emacs.d/init.el

On my unix machine, I do it a bit differently. There is a line in my
~/.emacs.d/init.el file that reads:

(load-file "~/Dropbox/.emacs.d/init.el")

but, I could just use an alias for that ran
emacs -l ~/Dropbox/.emacs.d/init.el

Everything else gets configured through the .emacs.d in my Dropbox folder.

FWIW, I too have occasionally had problems with conflicting files on
Dropbox, and I usually use kdiff3 to resolve them. It has a gui that works
well for me on windows and unix. I don't have this problem very often
though.


John

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John Kitchin
Associate Professor
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu



On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Renato Pontefice <renato.pontefice@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi John,
> can you explain me better what do you do? I'm pretty new to emacs.
> I see that:
> - on win, I have c:\emacs\.emacs.d\ini.el
> - on linux It's name is  emacs
>
> What you do is to run emacs in a diiferet way from Win and Linx (with
> different link)?
>
> TIA
>
> Renato
>
>
>
> 2014/1/9 John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
>
>> I keep my .emacs.d in a Dropbox folder. I start emacs with an alias like
>> this:
>> "C:\Users\jkitchin\Documents\v3 - My Box
>> Files\06-625\emacs-24.3\bin\runemacs.exe" -q -l
>> "C:\Users\jkitchin\Dropbox\.emacs.d\init.el"
>>
>> I run prelude inside that .emacs.d
>>
>> this lets me run the same setup on three windows machines, and one linux
>> machine. Dropbox does a pretty good job of keeping it synced.
>>
>>
>>
>> John
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> John Kitchin
>> Associate Professor
>> Doherty Hall A207F
>> Department of Chemical Engineering
>> Carnegie Mellon University
>> Pittsburgh, PA 15213
>> 412-268-7803
>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Joseph Vidal-Rosset <
>> joseph.vidal.rosset@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Le mer. 08 janv. 2014 à 07:59:50 , Renato <renato.pontefice@gmail.com> a
>>> envoyé ce message:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I'm learning emacs (as you probabily know :-)).
>>> > I have:
>>> > - one pc at home (linux Debian)
>>> > - one at work (windows)
>>> >
>>> > I would like to use the same configuration.
>>> > Now, I have my .org file on the cloud (so I can access it from
>>> anywhere)
>>> > But I'm  starting to edit also the config file:
>>> > on Win it is:
>>> > init.el
>>> >
>>> > on linux is
>>> > emacs
>>> >
>>> > so...How can I have a centralized instalation of emacs? Or, better: Is
>>> > it possible?
>>> >
>>> > TIA
>>> >
>>> > Renato
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Yes it is possible. It seems to me that now the best with emacs24 is
>>> to adopt the same configuration file  with an init.el with the following
>>> path:
>>>
>>> /home/your_home/.emacs.d/init.el
>>>
>>> the  folder .emacs.d/  is automatically  created when  you start  for the
>>> first time your emacs in your Debian.
>>>
>>> I do  not know how things  works in Windows,  because I do not  use this
>>> O.S.
>>>
>>> Windows users in this list - it  they are ;) - will probably complete my
>>> reply.
>>>
>>> I hope it helps.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Jo.
>>>
>>>
>>
>