From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: test whether init file loaded without error Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:49:22 -0700 Message-ID: <004301c88b73$840c5600$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206118307 25622 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2008 16:51:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:51:47 +0000 (UTC) To: "Emacs-Devel" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 17:52:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JckT6-0002sA-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:51:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JckSW-0001E3-Hg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:51:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JckSR-0001Cp-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:51:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JckSP-0001C9-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JckSP-0001C6-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JckSP-0007xD-6W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m2LGp2HG013319 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m2KFSwhx020858 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:51:01 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3621717551206118160; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:49:20 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.80.154) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:49:19 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AciLc4N6SlbwWQk8RO2K/0rOn4mcpw== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93120 Archived-At: Is there an easy way for Lisp code to test whether a user's init file was loaded without error? I imagine that it could try to use `after-init-hook' in some way (not sure how, though), but is there some straightforward way to test this? For example: A user's init file might use code that sets up `kill-emacs-hook' to save some custom variable. But it might be inappropriate to do that if the init file was not loaded successfully. The init file might, for example, define `custom-file' at the end, and if an error were raised during load, before the `custom-file' definition, then exiting Emacs would cause `kill-emacs-hook' to write the customization (incorrectly) to the init file instead of the `custom-file'.