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When loading things like themes from custom directories, is it possible to specify a path relative to the init.el file, rather than an absolute path?
I ask because I want to be able to use the same config file across my OSX and Windows machines, where an absolute path like ~/.emacs.d/themes means something different on each machine (I'm not even sure how Windows handles ~)
You can use ~/ in your init file and it will work fine on Windows. I always define a HOME environment variable and put my .emacs.d there, but there are other approaches. See the FAQ for the details of how Emacs decides what to use for home.
You can also build paths with the user-emacs-directory variable, if you prefer:
(expand-file-name "foo.el" user-emacs-directory)
which in my case would be interchangeable with just "~/.emacs.d/foo.el".
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$PROGRAMFILES instead of %PROGRAMFILES%, but I cannot check it at the moment).
– wvxvw
Dec 20 '15 at 19:10
load-relative was written to do something like this. Its purpose those was to do relative linking within a package, but I believe it can be used here as well.
~/the same way: as your home directory, the value of environment variableHOME. – Drew Dec 19 '15 at 22:02cd ~/in cmd but the path could not be found, despite having the HOME variable correctly set... – Simon Dec 19 '15 at 22:45cdis enough for going to your home directory. Also, you're better use powershell, cmd is definitely out-dated. – Nsukami _ Dec 19 '15 at 23:07emacs -Q? Did you define environment variableHOME? Did you doM-x cd RET ~/ RET? Works for me. – Drew Dec 19 '15 at 23:16