From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: 24 Aug 2004 14:33:01 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <003e01c48946$a8ebfad0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <011201c48a06$469eb6e0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093372440 10528 80.91.224.253 (24 Aug 2004 18:34:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:34:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 20:33:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bzg7C-0002MC-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:33:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzgBi-0001XF-Ec for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzgBW-0001Uk-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:38:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzgBT-0001Tc-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzgBT-0001TZ-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:38:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bzg6Y-0005Zg-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAED6B3027F; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:33:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B8F008CA23; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:33:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-Reply-To: <011201c48a06$469eb6e0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=0, requis 5) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26450 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26450 > I tend to disagree here but I may be misunderstanding something. As I have > seen it the order of execution is > 1) site-start.el > 2) .emacs > 3) default.el > Emacs customization (i. e. custom-set-variables and custom-set-faces) are > run in .emacs normally. This mean I can use the the customization if > I load things from default.el. I can't do that from site-start.el. Or? I guess it depends on what you want to do in default.el. I've just always found it harder as a user when I was given a place (such as .emacs) where I had to take into account future changes (as in: set toto here so that later code in default.el will change foo to bar) as opposed to being provided a state (setup by site-start.el) and being able to change it directly without havnig to know or worry about what might come later. But without more concrete details, it's difficult to discuss this. Stefan