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From: jmckitrick@gmail.com
To: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a setting that makes emacs begin editing the init.el file on startup?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:46:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANrPzJ7w95+xNmJQeu2tTg6t2=vNEZHn6+oHX3r6k8gkmRkR7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHa53uyjQivVKO++D96XNU+dQhVhpBYgjx9jWegR9vw8CUpELA@mail.gmail.com>

It was my mistake. I have a function that edits the init file, and somehow
one of the sexps escaped and was being evaluated directly on startup. Thus,
the file appearing.

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:40 AM Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Jonathon McKitrick <jmckitrick@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm consolidating my configs across machines, and now every time I start
>> the machine, instead of getting the empty scratch buffer, I see my init.el.
>>
>
> The only thing that I'm aware of that edits the init.el file is an
> explicit reference to it. So I'd search your init file for any reference to
> init.el and the cause should become clear pretty quickly.
>
> Of course there may be something I'm unaware of that magically finds the
> init file, so your YMMV.
>
> --
>
> In Christ,
>
> Timmy V.
>
> https://blog.twonegatives.com
> https://five.sentenc.es
>
>
>

-- 
Jonathon McKitrick


  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-05 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-04 17:40 Is there a setting that makes emacs begin editing the init.el file on startup? Jonathon McKitrick
2018-01-04 18:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-05 13:40 ` Tim Visher
2018-01-05 13:46   ` jmckitrick [this message]
2018-01-05 13:50     ` Tim Visher

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