Re: suggestion for portable emacs customizations

[Dmitry Gutov]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> writes:

> I'm beginning to have a lot of virtual machines where I have to run
> emacs, and I would like to have them all configured the same way with
> the same extensions (e.g., autocomplete) and configurations. Is there
> a smart way to provide a kind of "distribution" so that I can ease and
> automate the configuration of the multiple installations?
> The first thing  was thinking about was to set up a ~/.emacs directory
> will all the lisp extensions and to raw copy it, but there could be a
> smarter way...
> Any idea?

There are quite a few suggestions here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1d2qiv/how_to_make_an_emacs_configuration_that_based_on/

In short, use ELPA packages when you can (but don't check in the elpa
subdirectory), and use git submodules for the rest of the packages.