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Re: multiple/alternate .emacs
From: |
Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: multiple/alternate .emacs |
Date: |
05 Dec 2002 16:19:38 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.92 |
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk> writes:
Tim> "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"?
Tim> To what end would you want to do this?
I do this. I have one emacs for mail/news, and one for everything
else. I do this because emacs isn't threaded. If NNTP or mail is slow,
I press "g" and come back a few minutes later. In the mean time I want
to work.
I go the simple route of
emacs -q -l ~/emacs/mailwindow.el
to launch my mail reader (obvious I have this scripted, and don't type
it every time). Then I modularlise the rest of my start up, so that I
share as much code between the two as possible.
I also did this for a while when I was running emacs21, and emacs20 at
the same time, although this was mostly a quick cut and paste hack, as
I knew that it would not last for long!
Cheers
Phil