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Second day using Emacs.

I've forked the Prelude GitHub project and I'm storing my settings in the personal folder as instructed in the documentation.

I would like to be able to use my eshell aliases across machines with a git pull, but by default it looks like eshell settings are saved under the savefile directory which is by default ignored by git.

How can I put my eshell alias settings in my personal directory?

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eshell saves your aliases to the file specified in the eshell-aliases-filevariable, This variable should by default be inside the value of eshell-directory-name which prelude seems to override. You should be able to override it back to something you can put under VC like this:

(eval-after-load 'prelude-editor
  (lambda ()
    (setq eshell-directory-name "/my/eshell/stuff/")
    (setq eshell-aliases-file (concat eshell-directory "my-eshell-aliases"))))
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    Thanks for the tip! I wasn't able to get this exact code working, but I ended up just adding this one line to my personal .el file: (setq eshell-directory-name "~/.emacs.d/personal/eshell") And that worked great. I added a .gitignore in my personal dir to overwrite the ignoring of all "eshell" directories as it is in prelude's main .gitignore.
    – Zamicol
    Commented Feb 6, 2015 at 18:19

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