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    <p><strong>Question</strong></p> <p>How can one specify a user's emacs init file to load with emacsclient?</p> <p>emacsclient does not understand '-u user' and '-a ALTERNATE-EDITOR' does not allow me to quote it and provide '-u user'.</p> <p>For example, running:</p> <pre><code>/usr/bin/emacsclient -n -a '/usr/bin/emacs -u &lt;username&gt;' ~&lt;username&gt;/notes.txt </code></pre> <p>returns</p> <pre><code>/usr/bin/emacsclient: error executing alternate editor "/usr/bin/emacs -u &lt;username&gt;" </code></pre> <p><strong>Background</strong></p> <p>I'm using emacs version 23.1.1 and emacsclient version 23.1.</p> <p>emacs itself supports '-u user' to load a specified user's init file.</p> <p>I use the following bash function in my aliases file to invoke emacs</p> <pre><code># a wrapper is needed to sandwich multiple command line arguments in bash # 2&gt;/dev/null hides # "emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?" emacs_wrapper () { if [ 0 -eq $# ] then /usr/bin/emacsclient -n -a /usr/bin/emacs ~&lt;username&gt;/notes.txt 2&gt;/dev/null &amp; else /usr/bin/emacsclient -n -a /usr/bin/emacs $* 2&gt;/dev/null &amp; fi } alias x='emacs_wrapper' </code></pre> <p>Typing x followed by a list of files:</p> <ul> <li>Connects to an existing emacs server if one is running, otherwise starts a new one</li> <li>Executes as a background process</li> <li>Opens the list of files or my notes file if no files are provided</li> </ul> <p>This works great when I'm logged in as myself. However, many production boxes require me to log in as a production user. I've separated my aliases into a bash script, therefore I can get my aliases and bash functions by simply running.</p> <pre><code>. ~&lt;username&gt;/alias.sh </code></pre> <p>Unfortunately, this won't let me use my .emacs file (~&lt;username&gt;/.emacs) :(</p> <p>This problem has been driving me crazy.</p>
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