I want to put my .spacemacs into Github, so I cloned it to a local directory. How to let Emacs use the .spacemacs in that directory instead of from the default ~/.spacemacs?
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In much the same way as Emacs loads ~/.emacs.d/init.el if it can't find a ~/.emacs file, so does Spacemacs load ~/.spacemacs.d/init.el if it can't find a ~/.spacemacs file.
This means you can create a ~/.spacemacs.d directory and rename the ~/.spacemacs file to ~/.spacemacs.d/init.el. Then you put the ~/.spacemacs.d directory on GitHub, and you're done.
If you have some private layers, you can also move them inside ~/.spacemacs.d/ and manage them in the same repository.
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spacemacs uses already an
init.elfile - but you can nevertheless append the.spacemacsfile to theinit.el– toogleyNov 8, 2016 at 4:58 -
If you're talking about
~/.emacs.d/init.el, that's the entry point for Spacemacs code (technically Spacemacs is a configuration for Emacs). It loads~/.spacemacs(or~/.spacemacs.d/init.el), so there's no reason to append.spacemacsto~/.emacs.d/init.el– bmagNov 8, 2016 at 20:51 -
the reason to do that is to simplify storing the spacemacs config inside a git repo– toogleyNov 8, 2016 at 21:49
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I can't see how this answer would work.
emacslooks for~/.emacs.d/init.elor~/.emacsand only then are theSpacemacsconfigurations therein loaded.– joharrSep 6, 2022 at 6:57
You can symlink your .spacemacs file. From a bash prompt:
$ ln -s /path/to/your/spacemacs-directory/.spacemacs ~/.spacemacs
You might find it easier to symlink the entire directory to a "dot directory," i.e. ~/.spacemacs.d, in which case you would do this:
$ mv /path/to/your/spacemacs-directory/.spacemacs /path/to/your/spacemacs-directory/init.el
$ ln -s /path/to/your/spacemacs-directory ~/.spacemacs.d
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3Depending on your version of Windows, you can do the same using the
mklinkcommand. Create a directory symbolic link usingmklink /D link target.– glucasFeb 16, 2016 at 14:57
~/.spacemacsto my version-controlled.spacemacsfile.