Thanks - perfect On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Jan Böcker 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 > > " ) > > 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