From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Default init files in GNU/Linux distributions (was: bug in 22.0.50.1 ?? no rmailgen.el) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:12:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <44F077EC.2000607@speakeasy.net> <44F1F197.6080906@speakeasy.net> <44F23E59.9060202@speakeasy.net> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156800406 27499 80.91.229.2 (28 Aug 2006 21:26:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 28 23:26:43 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 1GHod0-0004D0-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:26:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHocz-0007TO-H5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHocn-0007SQ-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHock-0007S1-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:26:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHock-0007Ry-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [134.60.1.1] (helo=mail.uni-ulm.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GHoli-0007SD-At; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k7SLQIJN029179; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:26:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from viandante.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with SMTP id BE6E811F83; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:26:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 11441 invoked by uid 170); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:12:02 -0000 Original-To: ken X-Face: /U7=m^"/-Dn61mAl{g9e3>\G5Tp,oEX|V)g2I1hBk\ML; )7A?6cmB-y7y?'NA^J<=oz7syB =(McAwIHgLX!.B?R3X}98d@?>CrT094KLWh]WU4gDpnL/")MS(XoQTv`Oq225uL>+; CpPXo$N5e>N> $tPd-gbB^F{gQS#1ase]XO~D4p4M"3+F-7~u]dy3I?Pb8RO*H-EFeWDUf?Rf, d]pv\Jvh2Cht!A=im yKAS2Z%Ao^;}W/qzMvMm Mail-Followup-To: ken , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <44F23E59.9060202@speakeasy.net> (ken's message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:52:41 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-INFN-TO-Metrics: gemini 1233; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 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:59020 Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 28 2006, ken wrote: [ ~/.gnu-emacs file ] > 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/-- It's probably from SUSE's Emacs package: $ rpm -qf /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs emacs-21.3-206 $ cat /etc/SuSE-release SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) OSS VERSION = 10.0 SUSE reads ~/.gnu-emacs from ~/.emacs when not running XEmacs. But as we can see, some of the tests in those files are broken or at least only suitable when using the Emacs packages from the distribution. There's lot of other code in ~/.emacs / .gnu-emacs from SUSE that I would not recommend. > 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. The CVS installation does not install any files in ~/ (unless you set --prefix=$HOME or similar). Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/