更改Emacs的初始化位置

Question

I used to take the Programming languages course on Coursera and for the sake of the course i installed SML-Mode.

Now, I'd want to set up a Clojure environment in Emacs but instead of initializing Emacs from ~/.emacs.d, it initializes from the Users/karthik/Documents/sml-mode/sml-mode-startup

I deleted the sml-mode folder and on Emacs startup it shows me a warning about the files not being present. How I do point Emacs to load Emacs Live from the home folder.

I'm an Emacs newbie.

Answer 1

One easy way to do it, is

save you closure settings in /some/dir/my-closure-settings.el and call emacs as the following (to learn about -q -l , try emacs --help )

$ emacs -q -l /some/dir/my-closure-settings.el 

or even placing an alias in bashrc ,

$ alias closure-emacs='emacs -q -l /some/dir/my-closure-settings.el'
$ closure-emacs # will start emacs with your closure settings.

As you progress in learning some elisp, you will want to do it in one folder.

Answer 2

Assuming you installed Emacs yourself, and this SML-mode was an independent package, then I would speculated that it may have modified your site-start.el .

See if running emacs --no-site-file makes a difference.

If that's the issue, you can visit the file with:

M-: (find-library site-run-file) RET

You might also check:

Ch v user-emacs-directory RET

when running emacs in various ways:

• emacs
• emacs --no-site-file
• emacs -q
• emacs -Q

Unless it's a custom binary, at some point it should tell you "~/.emacs.d/"

Answer 3

Installing SML-mode does not change the place of the main initialization file, which is one of ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el . So look at those files (which ever of the two is present), and if none is present, then just create it and add what you need in it.

BTW, it looks like you're using an old sml-mode package (the newer one doesn't have an sml-mode-startup.el file). So please try and make sure the documentation that pointed you to that mode is updated: nowaday sml-mode should be installed from GNU ELPA, ie via Mx package-list or Mx package-install .