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I share my .emacs file between machines, which works great but I use a lot of packages and when emacs starts on a new machine with the .emacs it complains about the missing package. I can ignore it ...

I'm new to Emacs, and I'm storing my Emacs configuration in a GitHub repo. Whenever I move to a new computer, I want Emacs to install all packages I specify if they do not present on this computer. ...

I'm trying to use git to manage my .emacs.d directory. I occur this problem: Some package files are already managed by package-tools such as el-get,package.el via git. If I add them into my git ...

Like many people, I manage a lot of my dotfiles via a version control repository (Mercurial on Bitbucket, private, in my case). This is handy when setting up a new machine or propagating ...

How can I keep my .org files up to date across several computers, perhaps across multiple platforms(linux/windows)? I could keep all the .org files in git for example, but that would require me to ...

I'm a beginner in Emacs (using it for about 2 weeks now and loving it). As I update and expand my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file, the things that I write in there depend on certain packages that I installed ...

I am using emacs 24.4. I have added a large number of installed packages via the M-x list-packages directive over about a year of usage. I would love to export my installed packages list for use ...

Largely following the approach described by Bozhidar Batsov on the page: http://batsov.com/articles/2012/02/19/package-management-in-emacs-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/, I tried to build my emacs ...

Is it possible to customize Emacs so that whenever I save a file, Emacs also copies it to a specific folder? This directory could be, for instance, D:\my_backups or C:\Users\username\Dropbox\...

I want to automatically install packages that I don't have locally installed when I initialize Emacs. I use the following code to install some packages. (package-initialize) (mapc #'(lambda (pkg) ...

Example: I have IRC username and password in my emacs .init file I share my .init file across devices using a public github repo I encrypt this heading in my .init to avoid showing org-encrypt-entry ...

I'm testing out emacs today and I'm trying to sync config and packages to my dropbox. The solution I used with vim is what I'm planning for emacs Create a .emacs.d directory on dropbox Put an init....

I have to work on multiple different machines and it would be nice to keep my .emacs file consistent everywhere. Question: is there a package which allows to update the file at startup from a remote ...

If I would like to keep my emacs settings and packages in another computer or after a format is there a way to avoid having to install all the packages from the beginning? I don't just mean saving ...

I need to backup few files on my Mac, and it can be done inside of Emacs by calling a function. But it is a tedious task to do everyday and sometimes I forgot doing it. I wonder if I can automate it ...