Re: How to have two parallel emacs environments?

[Nicolas Richard]

Hello,

Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> writes:
> I was hoping that I could start an alternate emacs using the -u option so
> that I could get a separate instance using the growing new setup file.

You can start emacs with a modified HOME variable~:
HOME=/tmp/a-new-home emacs

Then emacs will look for /tmp/a-new-home/.emacs. One advantage is that
the package initialization happens normally. One advantage or
disadvantage (depending on your POV) is be that if you refer to files
relative to ~/ in /tmp/a-new-home/.emacs, they'll in fact be relative to
/tmp/a-new-home and not /home/yourusername/

-- 
Nico.