Re: one .emacs on multiple computers

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

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I also use git at work -- I have a central 'repo' on my work network share
and when using my laptop or desktop, I simply pull and push from/to the
central repo to keep everything in sync.

My structure is something like this:
~/org
~/org/aux
~/org/aux/emacs-config
~/org/aux/pics

Then on each of my computers I do 'ln -s ~/org/aux/emacs-config ~/.emacs'

When I make a change on either computer for some new option I want to use,
it's updated with the next pull from the other computer. I also used to keep
a ~/org/aux/elisp folder as well so that I could even sync my various
additional elisp files. I discontinued this only because my org.git repo
wasn't pulling/pushing since git doesn't like nested git repos. There is a
way to do this, but since I hardly change my elisp folder, I decided it
wasn't worth it.


John

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:32 AM, charles snyder <clsnyder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks
>
> - perfect
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de>wrote:
>
>> On 05/13/2010 03:48 AM, charles snyder wrote:
>>
>> > Can I just do something like:
>> >
>> > (defvar cls-org-file "C:/Users/clsnyder/My Documents/My
>> > Dropbox/emacs_org/") ;; WINDOWS VERSION
>> > (defvar cls-org-file "/Users/clsnyder/Dropbox/emacs_org/") ;; IMAC
>> VERSION
>> >
>> > and then in each of the various .emacs files on each of the machines,
>> > just do something like this throughout the file:
>> >
>> > (add-to-list 'load-path "cls-org-file" + org-mode6.35i/lisp" )
>> > (add-to-list 'load-path "cls-org-file" + personal.org
>> > <http://personal.org>" )
>>
>> Yes, that approach works.
>>
>> Create a directory for your org-mode configuration in your dropbox
>> directory, say /path/to/dropbox/emacs-config/.
>>
>> Put the contents of your .emacs in, say, emacs-config/init.el.
>>
>> In the .emacs file on each machine, put:
>>
>> (setq cls/config-dir "/absolute/path/to/dropbox/emacs-config/")
>> ; note the trailing slash!
>> (load (concat cls/config-dir "init.el"))
>>
>>
>> In init.el, set the `custom-file' variable to make the emacs customize
>> interface store its data under the dropbox directory:
>>
>> (setq custom-file (concat cls/config-dir "customize.el"))
>>
>> Assuming your org-mode checkout is at emacs-config/org-mode6.35i, use
>> (add-to-list 'load-path (concat cls/config-dir "org-mode6.35i/lisp"))
>> (require 'org)
>> ; other org-mode setup stuff
>>
>> If you want to have some machine-specific configuration, there is no
>> need to use different files for different machines -- just check for the
>> hostname.
>>
>> For example, I use org-mode on my laptop and my n900 smartphone, so my
>> startup files include:
>>
>>  (setq jb/system
>>        (cond ((string-match "N900" system-name) 'n900)
>>              ((string-match "pythagoras" system-name) 'laptop)
>>              (t 'unknown)))
>>
>> and later I can do:
>>
>> (when (eq jb/system 'n900)
>>  (blink-cursor-mode 0))
>>
>> to disable blink-cursor-mode on the n900 to save battery power.
>> (Emacs idle CPU usage with blink-cursor-mode: 1.5%. Without: 0% :) )
>>
>>
>> Because the path to your org files is rather long, you also might be
>> interested in this post, where Nathan Neff describes a way to easily
>> define shortcuts to jump to frequently used files/headings:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/25106/
>>
>> HTH, Jan
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Charles L. Snyder, MD
> Professor of Surgery
> Children's Mercy Hospital
> Kansas City, MO
> www.clsnyder.com
>
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