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Re: Alternate location for .emacs?


From: Harald Hanche-Olsen
Subject: Re: Alternate location for .emacs?
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:05:28 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (darwin)

+ Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>:

> Am 16.06.2009 um 19:13 schrieb Ross A. Laird:
>
>> I would like to store my .emacs in a location other than ~/.
>> Is this possible?
>
>
> It's not that easy ... (finding the right decision)
>
> [...]
>
> Are there more possible ways? Just one for more than a hand full, half
> a dozen!

You forgot the most obvious. What I do: ~/.emacs is a symlink to the
real .emacs (which is kept in a directory of stuff I maintain in cvs).

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell


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