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Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu
From: |
Suvayu Ali |
Subject: |
Re: Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Sep 2013 02:35:06 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) |
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 01:37:23PM -0700, 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.
May I ask why you want this? On Linux systems, all user specific
application settings go wherever $HOME points to. So Emacs respects
that. From the perspective of security, and administering a system,
this makes a lot of sense. Unless your username is EmacsHome, and you
are running Emacs as that user, I find your choice quite odd. It might
cause you conflicts with many other utilities.
That said, you could try symbolic links:
# ln -s /home/EmacsHome/.emacs ~/.emacs
# ln -s /home/EmacsHome/.emacs.d ~/.emacs.d
Hope this helps,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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