From: Jack Kelly <jack@jackkelly.name>
To: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Silently loading site files in -batch mode
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:57:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEnY7O-EFzu+qDbUqjAvECmO_exWny2BqeqchyGJY+aRW2-s8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsNXTmFfWagHbUn=0-N+acUKSLeFbE30zE4dk-fo8vRHHUOXw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:38 PM, PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jack Kelly <jack@jackkelly.name> wrote:
>> Not running the call to debian-startup appears to mean that the
>> following could happen:
>>
>> 1. package foo is being compiled.
>> 2. foo.el contains (require 'bar), installed by apt.
>> 3. emacs is invoked with -Q, so the directory containing bar.el or
>> bar.elc is not in the load-path.
>> 4. boom.
>
> $EMACS -Q --batch --eval "(push \"/path/to/bar\" load-path)" --eval
> "(load \"MY-FILE\" nil t)"
Indeed. But now we've come full circle: I can either get quiet
loading, or I have to replicate debian's weird startup changes, but I
can't easily get a change in before startup.el and get both.
Thanks for the advice Andreas, Doug and PJ, but it's really starting
to look I can't easily make emacs do what I want.
-- Jack
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-05 22:02 Silently loading site files in -batch mode Jack Kelly
2012-08-06 5:25 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-08-06 8:23 ` Jack Kelly
2012-08-06 10:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-08-06 15:55 ` Doug Lewan
2012-08-06 23:17 ` Jack Kelly
2012-08-07 3:38 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-08-07 3:57 ` Jack Kelly [this message]
2012-08-07 4:49 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-08-07 5:05 ` Jack Kelly
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