Re: Changing $HOME

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> writes:

> "Shug Boabby" <Shug.Boabby@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > thanks pascal... but the problem is that i only wish to set HOME for
> > emacs, but not the other dock (or OS X) apps.
> 
> Then you can put:
>      (putenv "HOME" "/some/path") 

Make it setenv

(I only use (setf (getenv "HOME") "/some/path") personnally...)

> at the start of your ~/.emacs
> 
> Of course, it'll use the normal $HOME to find ~/.emacs. If that's not
> what you want, you only can write a trampoline script:
> 
> % cat ~/bin/emacs
> #!/bin/bash
> export HOME=/some/path
> exec /usr/local/bin/emacs "$@"
> 
> 
> 
> 
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