Yes, I run emacs differently on different machines. On the windows machine I am on now, I have a shortcut that runs C:\Users\jkitchin\Dropbox\software\emacs-24.3\bin\runemacs.exe -l ~/Dropbox/.emacs.d/init.el
On my unix machine, I do it a bit differently. There is a line in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file that reads: (load-file "~/Dropbox/.emacs.d/init.el") but, I could just use an alias for that ran emacs -l ~/Dropbox/.emacs.d/init.el Everything else gets configured through the .emacs.d in my Dropbox folder. FWIW, I too have occasionally had problems with conflicting files on Dropbox, and I usually use kdiff3 to resolve them. It has a gui that works well for me on windows and unix. I don't have this problem very often though. John ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Associate Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Renato Pontefice <renato.pontef...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi John, > can you explain me better what do you do? I'm pretty new to emacs. > I see that: > - on win, I have c:\emacs\.emacs.d\ini.el > - on linux It's name is emacs > > What you do is to run emacs in a diiferet way from Win and Linx (with > different link)? > > TIA > > Renato > > > > 2014/1/9 John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> > >> I keep my .emacs.d in a Dropbox folder. I start emacs with an alias like >> this: >> "C:\Users\jkitchin\Documents\v3 - My Box >> Files\06-625\emacs-24.3\bin\runemacs.exe" -q -l >> "C:\Users\jkitchin\Dropbox\.emacs.d\init.el" >> >> I run prelude inside that .emacs.d >> >> this lets me run the same setup on three windows machines, and one linux >> machine. Dropbox does a pretty good job of keeping it synced. >> >> >> >> John >> >> ----------------------------------- >> John Kitchin >> Associate Professor >> Doherty Hall A207F >> Department of Chemical Engineering >> Carnegie Mellon University >> Pittsburgh, PA 15213 >> 412-268-7803 >> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Joseph Vidal-Rosset < >> joseph.vidal.ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Le mer. 08 janv. 2014 à 07:59:50 , Renato <renato.pontef...@gmail.com> a >>> envoyé ce message: >>> > Hi, >>> > I'm learning emacs (as you probabily know :-)). >>> > I have: >>> > - one pc at home (linux Debian) >>> > - one at work (windows) >>> > >>> > I would like to use the same configuration. >>> > Now, I have my .org file on the cloud (so I can access it from >>> anywhere) >>> > But I'm starting to edit also the config file: >>> > on Win it is: >>> > init.el >>> > >>> > on linux is >>> > emacs >>> > >>> > so...How can I have a centralized instalation of emacs? Or, better: Is >>> > it possible? >>> > >>> > TIA >>> > >>> > Renato >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Yes it is possible. It seems to me that now the best with emacs24 is >>> to adopt the same configuration file with an init.el with the following >>> path: >>> >>> /home/your_home/.emacs.d/init.el >>> >>> the folder .emacs.d/ is automatically created when you start for the >>> first time your emacs in your Debian. >>> >>> I do not know how things works in Windows, because I do not use this >>> O.S. >>> >>> Windows users in this list - it they are ;) - will probably complete my >>> reply. >>> >>> I hope it helps. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Jo. >>> >>> >> >
