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Emacs configuration in github

By Bozhidar

When you have applications, whose configuration is as complex as that of Emacs it’s always a good idea to store that configuration under version control so you can easily share it

between multiple computers. You can always set up some version control system yourself, but it’s a lot more convenient(and much more reliable) to use an already existing code hosting solution such a GitHub. I have created a small repo there

housing my humble Emacs configuration(.emacs, some custom stuff) and share it on all the computers that I work. You may have a look at my Emacs repo here.

In case you’re wondering why there is no file named .emacs in there – my .emacs actually consists of only one line:

(load “~/emacs/dot-emacs.el”)

This entry was posted on July 19, 2009 at 11:13 pm and is filed under Emacs, Git. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Emacs configuration in github”

  1. none Says:
    July 20, 2009 at 6:29 am | Reply

    You can store your config in ~/.emacs.d/init.el and stick that in your vcs.

  2. vedang Says:
    July 22, 2009 at 8:04 am | Reply

    if you use .emacs.d/init.el, you wont need .emacs anymore. so you should set up version control in the .emacs.d folder, copy over all your config files there, and rename your dotemacs.el to init.el

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