From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Documentation on default.el vs site-start.el Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:54:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129784750 24107 80.91.229.2 (20 Oct 2005 05:05:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 07:05:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESSak-0007kJ-Oe for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:03:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESSaj-0003ro-PU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESSZm-00039r-TI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESSZm-00039W-6E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:02:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESSRp-0000Yu-1l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:54:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESSRp-0004dF-CK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:54:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1ESSRo-0006Jw-5t; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:54:36 -0400 Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-reply-to: (message from Kevin Rodgers on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:32:45 -0600) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:13567 Archived-At: `C-h v site-run-file' also says that it is customizable, but that seems pointless: by the time the customization is done (whether in custom-file, .emacs, or default.el) the default site-run-file has already been loaded. The doc string says this: This variable is defined for customization so as to make it visible in the relevant context. However, actually customizing it is not allowed, since it would not work anyway. The only way to set this variable usefully is to set it while building and dumping Emacs."