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Re: Remote .emacs file
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Remote .emacs file |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:44:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
>>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>> "Leonid Grinberg" <lgrinberg@gmail.com>:
>> Does anyone out there know (of a way to do it, or of another
>> way)?
SB> What I've done is to version control my home directory with CVS
SB> and run a CVS server on my home cable modem machine. One of the
SB> first things I do on a new linux/unix machine, or cygwin
SB> installation, is to check out my home directory and I'm up and
SB> running.
SB> I even get version control of the files...:-)
SB> (Note that even though the entire home directory has to be
SB> version controlled, not all files in it has to be. And they
SB> aren't in my case. I only actually version control all of the
SB> stuff that used to take me the better part of a day to set up on
SB> a new machine)
I do a similar thing, but use unison which is a file synchroniser
rather than a version control. Works like a charm and has the
advantage over a remote .emacs that it works when the network is down!
Phil