Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu

[Steven Knight]

On 9/4/2013 4:37 PM, kishore.r.318@gmail.com wrote:
> Currently my .emacs file is found in /home So is my .emacs.d folder and I 
> suppose some other files like diary, notes etc will be created in this folder.
>
> I find this really messy and I want all my emacs related files(including the 
> .emacs) and folders in a single folder, say /home/EmacsHome
>
> How do I do that in Ubuntu 12.04? In windows I did this by setting an 
> environment variable HOME to the path of EmacsHome. But, in Ubuntu, the HOME 
> variable will be used for several other programs as well, so I dont want to 
> change that.

Hi,

May I suggest that you leave .emacs.d as it is and simply move .emacs to 
~/.emacs.d/init.el

Thanks,

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Steven Knight <steven@knight.cx>