Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine

[gebser]

Thanks much, BFW,

That's what I was first looking for.

ken

bigfaceworm at 08:33 (UTC-0800) on 5 Feb 2003 said:

= gebser@ameritech.net wrote in message 
news:<Pine.LNX.4.44.0302031943250.16795-100000@heidegger.mousecar.net>...
= > 
= > My first thought was simply to edit my own (local) ".emacs" and putting
= > it on his machine (as, say, .emacs-ken, then doing "emacs -t
= > .emacs-ken").  I was looking for something even simpler and more
= > discrete than that.  (Sheesh, I'm a lazy SOB.)
= 
= I remember playing around with this.  My issue was that
= the color changes my .emacs set up wouldn't come into effect
= if I manually loaded the .emacs.  But this .emacs (on the remote
= machine) seemed to work just fine:
= 
= 
= (eval-after-load 'dot-emacs
=   (load-file "/bigfaceworm@localmachine.com:/path/to/bigfaceworm/.emacs"))
= 
= (provide 'dot-emacs)
= 
= 
= hth,
= 
= BFW
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