Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Running emacs off ~/notebook/plans/.foo

[Evan Monroig]

On 6/6/06, thomas knoll <address@hidden> wrote:
> I would really like to run emacs in such a way that all my .foobar
> files can be in my plans directory. As it is right now, I'm useing my
> files on three different computers, one of which is network only
> (never seen the physical machine). It would be much easier if I only
> had to move around one directory (instead of one directory and four or
> five other random files).
>
> thoughts? or "duh, you do it this way" 's?

Hi, I understand what you mean and I am doing (almost) exactly the
same. I have a directory ~/planner in my home folder, and I have it
versionned with subversion (over ssh) so that I can easily switch
computers.

Maybe the easiest way (I haven't tried) would be to do something like

export HOME=/home/myname/planner emacs

when you start emacs, but here is how I do anyway.

My ~/.emacs consists of ony line:
(load "~/planner/emacs.el")

which contains my settings including non-default directories and files:

(setq planner-id-tracking-file "~/planner/planner-id")
(setq diary-file "~/planner/diary")
(setq bbdb-file "~/planner/bbdb")
(setq message-signature-file "~/planner/signature")
(setq planner-directory "~/planner/plans")


Evan