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Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:06:58 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/directory/emacs.html) |
Kai Großjohann wrote:
> Let's say you have a CVS work directory ~/work/dotfiles for your,
> well, dot files. Then you'd create two files .emacs and Makefile
> there and Makefile would look like this:
>
> install:
> ( cd $HOME; ln -s work/dotfiles/.emacs )
>
> After this, wherever you go, just
>
> mkdir ~/work
> cd ~/work
> cvs -d $YOUR_REPOSITORY co dotfiles
> cd dotfiles
> make install
>
> The above is for a fresh account. After you've done it once, just
>
> cd ~/work/dotfiles
> cvs up -dP
> make install
This sounds like a nice idea, but surely there is some faffing about
to be done with regards to authentication? In which case, does it
really gain you much over just
scp user@remotehost:.emacs ./
?
I suppose it does if you have a lot of config files you want to copy.
- Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine, (continued)
Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine, Kai Großjohann, 2003/02/04
Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine, Mac, 2003/02/06
Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/02/04
Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine, Kai Großjohann, 2003/02/05