Re: OT: version control of .el files in NT Emacs

[Óscar Fuentes]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

>> In HOME put an .emacs file with a single line:
>>
>> (load "c:/Sivaram/repos/your_el_repo/emacs.el")
>>
>> where your_el_repo contains your Emacs-related files and emacs.el
>> contains whatever you now have in %HOME%/.emacs.
>
> dammit, that makes me look so stupid.

I don't think so.

> It's exactly what I want. Thanks for the simple idea.

You're welcome.

You probably noticed that you need to adjust the load-path. A robust way
of doing that is to put in your_el_repo/emacs.el :

(add-to-list 'load-path (file-name-directory load-file-name))

It is also is useful to put this

(setq user-init-file load-file-name)

at the beginning of your emacs.el file in your_el_repo. Look up the
docstring for the user-init-file variable to see why.