Re: Selecting diferent init file from command switch

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

>> So I created 2 different init files: .emacs-ide, .emacs-editor!
>>
>> But I do I tell emacs, that it should not loa ~/.emacs but i.E.
>> ~/.emacs-ide???
>
> You can set $HOME to get emacs load a ".emacs" from another directory.


I would rather propose a different solution.

You can have one ~/.emacs  that will check the command-line-args
variable for arguments specific to each usage:


(let ((pname (file-namestring (first command-line-args))))
 (cond
  ((string= "emacs-ide" pname)
   
    ;; do ide specific initialization

    )
  ((string= "emacs-quick-edit" pname)
   
    ;; do quick-edit specific initialization

    )
  (t
    
    ;; do default emacs specific initialization

    )))

and use symbolic links to emacs named emacs-ide and emacs-quick-edit.



If you really want to keep your initializations in different files,
then you can use in ~/.emacs:

(let ((pname (file-namestring (first command-line-args))))
  (cond
    ((string= pname "emacs")
      
      ;; do default emacs specific initialization

      )
    (t
      (load (format nil "~/.%s" pname)))))
    

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