help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Setting user-emacs-directory


From: abc
Subject: Setting user-emacs-directory
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:08:15 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

Hi everyone,

I'm a recent Emacs convert. I'm trying to customize a little bit GNU
Emacs 23 for my Mac OS X system.

I'd like change the user directory (usually ~/.emacs.d) and the init
file placing them inside ~/Library/Preferences/Emacs and ~/Library/
Preferences/Emacs/Preferences.el, respectively. Currently I'm
achieving this by using symbolic links.

I'd like to know if there's a cleaner way to do this other than
editing Emacs scripts (subr.el), e.g. by setting some environment
variables. I've tried to set the user-emacs-directory from my init
file, but Emacs ignores me, and still creates auto-save-list inside
~/.emacs.d.

Thanks in advance.


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]