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

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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.pontefice@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 <jkitchin@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

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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.rosset@gmail.com> wrote:

Le mer. 08 janv. 2014 à 07:59:50 , Renato <renato.pontefice@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.