From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in 22.0.50.1 ?? no rmailgen.el Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:44:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <44F077EC.2000607@speakeasy.net> <44F1F197.6080906@speakeasy.net> <44F23E59.9060202@speakeasy.net> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156777991 12292 80.91.229.2 (28 Aug 2006 15:13:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:13:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 28 17:13:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHin9-0001Wv-T9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:12:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHin9-0005Lo-8a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHimQ-0004x8-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHimO-0004wZ-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:12:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHimO-0004wW-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GHivK-00023q-5h; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:44:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ken In-reply-to: <44F23E59.9060202@speakeasy.net> (message from ken on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:52:41 -0400) 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:58999 Archived-At: [regarding ~/.gnu-emacs] My best and most dispassionate estimation is that it was put there when the account was created-- it is a standard file in /etc/skel/-- and/or a file of exactly the same name and contents was put there by the CVS emacs itself upon installation. I'm going to guess you don't believe it was the latter. I just checked all of my CVS sources for GNU Emacs using find and grep and did not find .gnu-emacs in any of them. If it is a standard file in your /etc/skel/, please tell those responsible that is an error. (In my /etc/skel/ directory, there is no mention of Emacs, only BASH and CSH.) As I wrote in (eintr)Default Configuration There are those who appreciate Emacs' default configuration. After all, Emacs starts you in C mode when you edit a C file, starts you in Fortran mode when you edit a Fortran file ... But when you do know who is going to use Emacs--you, yourself--then it makes sense to customize Emacs. Customization is in a ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.el' file. (I started my .emacs file a long time ago; I cannot bear the standard Emacs; but I do not expect others to adopt my ~/.emacs file blindly ... or even having looked at it ... :) There are also site-wide initialization files: (eintr)Site-wide Init In addition to your personal initialization file, Emacs automatically loads various site-wide initialization files, if they exist. These have the same form as your `.emacs' file, but are loaded by everyone. Two site-wide initialization files, `site-load.el' and `site-init.el', are loaded into Emacs and then `dumped' if a `dumped' version of Emacs is created, as is most common. ... Three other site-wide initialization files are loaded automatically each time you start Emacs, if they exist. ... Settings and definitions in your `.emacs' file will overwrite conflicting settings and definitions in a `site-start.el' file, if it exists; but the settings and definitions in a `default.el' or terminal type file will overwrite those in your `.emacs' file. ... ~/.gnu-emacs is none of these. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc