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Re: Starting Emacs with different init file
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Tim X |
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Re: Starting Emacs with different init file |
Date: |
29 Oct 2003 18:18:43 +1100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
>>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Nilsson <joachim@vmlinux.org> writes:
Joachim> Dan Anderson wrote:
>> You could leave an empty .emacs file on your main file, and then
>> M-x load-file RET filename to load the .emacs file from the
>> directory, but that would probably be more trouble then it's
>> worth.
Joachim> Yep.
>> I wonder if you did something like: (load-file "./.emacs") in your
>> .emacs, would that work?
Joachim> That did the trick!
Joachim> Now, if only I knew how to traverse up the dir tree from
Joachim> where I start emacs and let it take the first init file one
Joachim> it finds until it reaches $HOME/.emacs-default. Like this:
Joachim> ~/Work/Projects/Customer_One/Product_Series1/SW/src/
Joachim> ~/Work/Projects/Customer_One/Product_Series1/SW/
Joachim> ~/Work/Projects/Customer_One/Product_Series1/
Joachim> ~/Work/Projects/Customer_One/.emacs
Joachim> or
Joachim> ~/Work/Projects/Customer_Two/Productum/HW/vhdl/
Joachim> ~/Work/Projects/Customer_Two/Productum/HW/
Joachim> ~/Work/Projects/Customer_Two/Productum/
Joachim> ~/Work/Projects/Customer_Two/ ~/Work/Projects/ ~/Work/
Joachim> ~/.emacs-default
Joachim> Looks like a recursive problem to me, and maybe even
Joachim> something I can put together myself even.
What is it about the different projects/jobs that requires totally
different init files? I suspect there is a much better solution, but
without knowing what it is you need different for the various
projects, its impossible to make any suggestion.
Tim
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