From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Documentation on default.el vs site-start.el
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:32:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dj5ouv$52g$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nn8xwpwztx.fsf@adriana.lysator.liu.se>
Niels Möller wrote:
> The manual describes "site-start.el" in the section "The Init File,
> `~/.emacs'", like this:
>
> Your site may also have a "site startup file"; this is named
> `site-start.el', if it exists. Like `default.el', Emacs finds this
> file via the standard search path for Lisp libraries. Emacs loads this
> library before it loads your init file. To inhibit loading of this
> library, use the option `-no-site-file'. *Note Initial Options::.
>
> This doesn't explain when one should use default.el and when one
> should use site-start.el. The documentation string for site-run-file
> in startup.el gives the following advice:
>
> Don't use the `site-start.el' file for things some users may not like.
> Put them in `default.el' instead, so that users can more easily
> override them. Users can prevent loading `default.el' with the `-q'
> option or by setting `inhibit-default-init' in their own init files,
> but inhibiting `site-start.el' requires `--no-site-file', which
> is less convenient.
`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.
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-19 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-19 10:44 Documentation on default.el vs site-start.el Niels Möller
2005-10-19 15:32 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2005-10-20 0:29 ` Johan Bockgård
2005-10-20 4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
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