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Re: change location of .emacs


From: Maarten Bergvelt
Subject: Re: change location of .emacs
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:05:12 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <871wkjpiaz.fsf@gmail.com>, Hadron wrote:
> 
> A quick google shows me I can change the "user" with -u to pick up that
> users .emacs, but how to just say I want MY ".emacs" which is in another
> directory? I wish to keep my .emacs in my "lisp" directory and tell
> emacs about it on the command line. Possible?

To learn about emacs maybe not google but read the documentation? See
command line arguments section in the manual, you seem to be looking
for 
emacs -q -l lispdirectory/your.emacs.file

hth
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Maarten Bergvelt                


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