Re: Using a separate config file, without disturbing the system's

[Ligesh <myself@ligesh.com>]

 Hey, that worked. A bit too dramatic answer for my tastes, but hey, can't argue with results. :-) 

 Thanks.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:00:32AM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Ligesh wrote:
> >  If you want zsh to parse your custom configuration file in the non-interacti
> > ve mode, currently it seems, the only way is to add it to .zshenv file. Now I
> >  want to start a session with a completely different configuration file and s
> > tay in that config file till the end of the session.
> 
> % mkdir ~/zdotdir
> % echo "echo Wow, I just used the alternative .zshrc" >~/zdotdir/.zshrc
> % ZDOTDIR=~/zdotdir zsh
> Wow, I just used the alternative .zshrc
> % printenv ZDOTDIR
> /home/pws/zdotdir
> 
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