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

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Fri, Sep 09 2016,Óscar Fuentes wrote:


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> 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.
>

How does this help?  Because I have just 2 lines in the $HOME/.emacs

(setq user-emacs-directory "c:/gnu/initfiles/.emacs.d/" )
(load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.emacs")

And in the c:/gnu/initfiles/.emacs file I hard coded paths like

(load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.text_config.el")
(load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.ido_config.el")
(load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.ac_config.el")
(load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.r_ess_config.el")
(load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.cygwin_config.el")
(load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.uniq_config.el")
(load-file "c:/gnu/initfiles/.smex_config.el")

I get it that .sh_history, .smex_history and other .history*
files used/created by various packages will be still created in
$HOME/.emacs but those are fairly transient stuff aren't they?



sivaram
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