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From: Sze Chan <sze.m.chan@gmail.com>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: loading configuration file for emacs 21.4.1
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:05:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPo0JWA4Uvyh0v4bT2B9HR_pidYUDys-wgMa1y=f80xDar4yWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08565583-19B5-4030-A323-D9546703C987@Web.DE>

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Thanks for replying..

i thought there was to override the user-init-file variable.  emacs has
been around for so long, surely there is a way to have emacs load a custom
init.el  or emacs.el file.


Sze

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:

>
> Am 20.07.2012 um 16:47 schrieb Sze Chan:
>
> > it does not load the configuration file.
>
> GNU Emacs load the file to which the variable user-init-file points. So,
> either adjust your two file names to the proper one or set the variable
> that it names the init file. Another file is addressed by the variable
> custom-file.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> "Indentation?! I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!"
>
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-20 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20 14:47 loading configuration file for emacs 21.4.1 Sze Chan
2012-07-20 19:56 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-07-20 20:05   ` Sze Chan [this message]

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