resetting xemacs' idea of home directory

[SL Baur]

On 4/27/08, Tim Connors <tconnors at astro.swin.edu.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Mike Kupfer wrote:

> It's more that I'm being overly complicated and want some way of forcing
>  the xemacs process on one machine (machine 1) to use one filesystem,
>  except for when it is invoked by the gnuclient process on another machine
>  (machine 2; I don't want to just run the xemacs process on machine 2,
>  because machine 2 is maintained by central ITS who are useless
>  morons^W^Wrun several year old unmaintained versions of linux).  Since a
>  wrapper around gnuclient pointing back to machine 1 is my $EDITOR of
>  choice on machine 2, I can't just put a symlink in for ~/thesis on machine
>  1, because sometimes I really do want to edit other files on machine 2.
>
>  Probably more of an ill thought-out idea than something worth persuing.
>  Never mind me :)

No, it actually bears some thought now.  I face similar Linux braindamage
issues at work.  We could always assume in the past that a Linux user was
free to change/fix his environment and that isn't true any more.

-sb