"Shug Boabby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> thanks pascal... but the problem is that i only wish to set HOME for
> emacs, but not the other dock (or OS X) apps.

Then you can put:
     (putenv "HOME" "/some/path") 
at the start of your ~/.emacs

Of course, it'll use the normal $HOME to find ~/.emacs. If that's not
what you want, you only can write a trampoline script:

% cat ~/bin/emacs
#!/bin/bash
export HOME=/some/path
exec /usr/local/bin/emacs "$@"




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