Re: change location of .emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:05:12 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> In article <871wkjpiaz.fsf@gmail.com>, Hadron wrote:
> > 
> > A quick google shows me I can change the "user" with -u to pick up that
> > users .emacs, but how to just say I want MY ".emacs" which is in another
> > directory? I wish to keep my .emacs in my "lisp" directory and tell
> > emacs about it on the command line. Possible?
> 
> To learn about emacs maybe not google but read the documentation? See
> command line arguments section in the manual, you seem to be looking
> for 
> emacs -q -l lispdirectory/your.emacs.file

This suggestion could have surprising effects, as loading .emacs via
the -l switch is subtly different from what Emacs does when it finds
.emacs in the user's home directory.

To the OP: I suggest to put a one-line .emacs in your HOME directory
that says this:

  (load "your.lisp.directory/your.emacs.file")