Re: How to have two parallel emacs environments?

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi Nicolas,

Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:

> 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/

That's a clever way to solve the problem. The ~ problem neds to be taken
into account but that's easily solvable.

Thanks for the suggestion :)


Guido

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