Re: one .emacs on multiple computers

[Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>]

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Many thanks from me too, Jan.  That's very helpful.

Scot

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM, 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
>
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