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bug#15539: Setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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Subject: |
bug#15539: Setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation |
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Date: |
Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:36:53 -0400 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
François Févotte wrote:
> Implementationwise, I'm not very proud of having to define a new global
> variable,
I'm not saying it's the right solution, but you could use an environment
variable (eg EMACS_USER_DIRECTORY) rather than a command-line switch to
control this. This would be consistent with eg EMACSDATA, and also I
think with how other applications normally let you control where they
look for their init files (?). But on the other hand, environment
variables can be easier to overlook than explicit flags eg when
debugging.
On the other other hand, the OP could just do
ln -s mine.d .emacs.d
so I'm not sure what the point of this feature would be, unless eg you
frequently want to swap between different .emacs.d's?