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Emacs profiles

Have side-by-side emacs configurations. For example I have spacemacs, doom and vanilla emacs. Use Chemacs2. Just follow the instructions in the README.md. It’s really easy.

My profile configuration

Example .emacs-profiles.el

(("default" . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/spacemacs")))
("spacemacs" . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/spacemacs")))
("doom"   . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/doom")))
("vanilla"   . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/.emacs.default"))))

• This runs spacemacs, doom and vanilla emacs side-by-side
• spacemacs is the default when no profile is specified.
• Its nice to have shell aliases for these profiles, for example:

  alias sm="emacs --with-profile spacemacs"
  alias spacemacsbg="sm --daemon=spacemacs"
  alias spacemacsc="emacsclient --create-frame --no-wait --socket-name=spacemacs"
  alias spacemacs="spacemacsbg && spacemacsc"
  alias spacemacskill="emacsclient --socket-name=spacemacs -e '(kill-emacs)'"