External configuration file

[jvillasante]

It would be super nice to be able to have personal configuration on external directories, for example:

    ~/.prelude/
    ~/.config/prelude/

Is that possible today or is it planned for the near future?

[jvillasante]

So, taken from Rational Emacs this could probably be done by the following:

(defvar prelude-personal-dir
  (cond
   ((featurep 'chemacs)
    (if (getenv  "PRELUDE_PERSONAL_DIR")
        (expand-file-name (getenv "PRELUDE_PERSONAL_DIR"))
      (expand-file-name "personal" prelude-dir)))
   ((getenv "PRELUDE_PERSONAL_DIR") (expand-file-name (getenv "PRELUDE_PERSONAL_DIR")))
   ((or (getenv "XDG_CONFIG_HOME") (file-exists-p (expand-file-name ".config/prelude-personal" (getenv "HOME"))))
    (if (getenv "XDG_CONFIG_HOME")
        (expand-file-name "prelude-personal" (getenv "XDG_CONFIG_HOME"))
      (expand-file-name ".config/prelude-personal" (getenv "HOME"))))
   ((getenv "HOME") (expand-file-name ".prelude-personal" (getenv "HOME"))))
  "The user's prelude personal configuration path.")

That will simplify a lot prelude user personal config files for people that use Chemacs2 and want to keep personal configurations in they dotfiles repo. I know next to nothing about emacs lisp, is anybody else interested in this?

[jvillasante]

So... I'm waiting for this to take prelude for a ride and hopefully make it my default.
Is anybody interested in something like this?
Should I go ahead and do a PR or something?

I would appreciate a lot a response!

[bbatsov]

@jvillasante Sorry about the slow response!

I like the idea and a PR would be welcome!

[jvillasante]

I created #1389

Let me know if I'm missing something.