Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!akela!wolfram From: wolfram@akela.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Programming environments Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 91 13:39:49 GMT References: <4219@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Lines: 18 gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe Gaudreau - Sun BOS Software) writes: >(2) If I'm running emacs from a command line, how do I tell it where the >home directory is (for emacs startup, etc). Check the manual for the command line options. As far as I remember it's -d or -D to load a specified startup file, like emacs filename -d/emacs/emacs.rc Try to set the HOME env variable with your command shell, this might also work. Talking about programming environment, I heavily use the Okami Shell rather than Gulam or any other shell since it can do a lot more. In the Okami Shell, you would have to type HOME=/emacs export HOME or put these lines in your profile to change the home directory. Gulam should require a command like setenv HOME or the like.