Re: Startup files data in different locations?

[J. David Boyd]

ross@rosslaird.com (Ross A. Laird) writes:

> I have my .emacs and .gnus in ~/ as usual. I'd like to back them up
> using Dropbox. I know that I could store them in my Dropbox folder and
> symlink them to ~/, but I wonder if there is a better way. Could I copy
> the settings in these files, place them in files in the Dropbox folder,
> and then include only the load command for these files in .emacs and
> .gnus? This way, I could keep my settings secure and could load them on
> my Linux machines and my Mac with a single line in the startup files of
> each system. No symlinks (which I am not too familiar with and don't use
> much) would be required. So:
>
> On each system, .emacs has one line:
>
> (load-file "/home/ross/Dropbox/emacs_startup.el")
> (load-file "/home/ross/Dropbox/gnus_startup.el")
>
> Is this workable?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Ross


The first question that comes to mind is "Did it work?"  

If it works, then it is certainly workable...

Dave