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Re: How to specify customized configuration file rather than"~/.emacs" ?
From: |
Suvayu Ali |
Subject: |
Re: How to specify customized configuration file rather than"~/.emacs" ? |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:05:55 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2011-07-01) |
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:02:09AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
>
> > What I specifically need is that, let emacs treat another
> > file as the "~/.emacs" file.
> >
> > This file should behaves EXACTLY as "~/.emacs" except that
> > they have different file name.
> >
> > That means, if I click Options -> Save Options, emacs
> > would write changes to this specific file.
>
> No, the last two sentences do not say the same thing.
>
> If you want what you say in the second sentence, then use option
> `custome-file',
> as I said before. Then just put (load-file custom-file) in your .emacs.
>
> This way, you still have your .emacs file for any non-Customize customizations
> you might want to make. And you can choose at which point in your .emacs you
> want to load the customizations provided by Customize, by placing (load-file
> custom-file) wherever you want.
>
> Please read the Emacs manual about `custom-file':
>
> C-h r
> i custom-file
>
To add an example to what Drew said; you can look at my init file here:
<https://github.com/suvayu/.emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#L29>
Hope this helps.
--
Suvayu
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