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Re: multiple/alternate .emacs
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Tim Haynes |
Subject: |
Re: multiple/alternate .emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:53:00 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) |
"Bryan W. Lepore" <lepore@brandeis.edu> writes:
> is there a way to make emacs use alternate .emacs files? e.g. .emacs1,
> .emacs2, or is the .emacs required to be named only ".emacs"?
To what end would you want to do this?
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If it's one scenario I suspect, then you could consider a simple .emacs
that chooses which other files to load; something like, for example:
(if (string-match "XEmacs" (emacs-version)) ;choose config file to load
(load "~/.xemacsrc")
(load "~/.gnuemacs"))
and make sure that you assert
(setq custom-file "~/.gnuemacs")
as appropriate as well.
Multiple versions for different environments can also be handled very well
by CVS - I have the above, as you might have guessed, and I have multiple
branches in cvs for home, work, colo-server.
</spiel>
~Tim
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