Sometimes you would like an emacs environment for a particular type of task or development process (say clojure) but do not want the emacs libraries you use for this process to be part of your default emacs configurations.
This repository is a set of folders and each folder is a set of emacs configurations for a particular emacs environment
When you need to launch one of these emacs environments you need to
- tell emacs not to use its standard setup files
- point it to the new setup files
emacs -q -l /path/to/custom/dir/init.el
Each folders init.el file has information telling it which packages to
install.
The folder also changes emacs concept of the user-emacs-directory.
This directory is where it stores packages to.
We set the user-emacs-directory to our custom environment folder so emacs
installs any of the packages needed into the package folder within that
directory. This keeep our standard .emacs.d untouched while in this
environment.
(setq user-emacs-directory "~/path/to/dir/")