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Re: Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file)
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Tim X |
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Re: Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file) |
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20 Sep 2005 19:49:39 +1000 |
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Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:
> August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se> writes:
>
> > Henrik Enberg wrote:
> >>>From: August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se>
> >>>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:48:57 GMT
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to instruct Emacs to use an alternative
> >>> initialization file, something like
> >>>
> >>> $ emacs --init-file=~/.emacs2
> >> emacs -q --load ~/.emacs2
> >
> > OK, thanks everyone.
>
> One problem with this solution is that any customizations the user
> might do (using M-x customize), will be saved to ~/.emacs and not the
> alternative init file.
>
> Does anyone have any solution for this? Sometimes I want to start a
> more "light" Emacs with a smaller init file, but still be able to use
> the customize tool and save that to my smaller init file.
>
There is a variable which you can set that will tell emacs where to
write customize settings. However, I do vaguely rememher some problems
with this in older versions of emacs - don't know how reliable it is
now.
Tim
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- Alternative init file, August Karlstrom, 2005/09/19
- Re: Alternative init file, Neon Absentius, 2005/09/19
- Re: Alternative init file, David Kastrup, 2005/09/19
- Re: Alternative init file, Henrik Enberg, 2005/09/19
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- Re: Alternative init file, August Karlstrom, 2005/09/19
- Re: Alternate init file, take two, David Hansen, 2005/09/20
- Re: Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file),
Tim X <=
- Re: Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file), Peter Dyballa, 2005/09/20