Re: how to edit+compile+debug without leaving GNU/Emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.02.2006 um 09:28 schrieb venk:

> This is suggesting to use one .emacs per edit, build, debug terminals.
> Have I understood right?

Yes.

> Actually, my home directory(the absolute path) is the same on all  
> these three machines. so wherever I start Emacs from, the  
> same .emacs gets loaded.

The same for me. I had different .Xdefaults files (.Xdefaults- 
<hostname>) and I had in .emacs portions for each host. HOSTNAME was  
defined in the environment, so I could get its value and use it.

> How can I load different .emacs depending on the machine name?

You could create different .emacs-<HOSTNAME> files and then put  
into .emacs:

        (load (format "~/.emacs-%s.el" (getenv "HOST")))

This will retrieve the $HOST environment variable and create a file  
name according to the specified format. The file with this file name  
then will be loaded and its ELisp code executed. You could make each  
of these files start with

        (message ".emacs-<given HOSTNAME> starts here")

and end with

        (message ".emacs-<given HOSTNAME> ends here")

to see that it actually works. (You probably know 'touch ~/.emacs-$ 
{HOST}.el' ?) Then put the *-frame-alist's into them. The default  
type defaults for all GNU Emacs frame (I prefer to start with an  
initial one that's a bit different in order to do experiments with  
some Emacsen in progress).

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  Pete

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