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Re: change location of .emacs
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Hadron |
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Re: change location of .emacs |
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Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:20:13 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu> writes:
> In article <871wkjpiaz.fsf@gmail.com>, Hadron wrote:
>>
>> A quick google shows me I can change the "user" with -u to pick up that
>> users .emacs, but how to just say I want MY ".emacs" which is in another
>> directory? I wish to keep my .emacs in my "lisp" directory and tell
>> emacs about it on the command line. Possible?
>
> To learn about emacs maybe not google but read the documentation? See
> command line arguments section in the manual, you seem to be looking
> for
> emacs -q -l lispdirectory/your.emacs.file
>
> hth
There is no "-l" option mentioned in my emacs command line "C2. initial options"
startup section other than when running emacs in batch.