From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sze Chan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: loading configuration file for emacs 21.4.1 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:05:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <08565583-19B5-4030-A323-D9546703C987@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8f3babc1cf1a4004c5486b94 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342814934 14394 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2012 20:08:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:08:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 20 22:08:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SsJVK-0000Pv-Ru for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:08:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SsJVK-0003y1-0T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:08:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44031) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SsJTy-0003qh-BG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SsJSL-0004Rm-2l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com ([209.85.212.171]:61474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SsJSK-0004RZ-Rw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: by wibhq4 with SMTP id hq4so725578wib.12 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:05:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=K7a9BdpZAWqz7U+Hh3HJsISSnsIneNVgQStzAN1SAlA=; b=pYdgRVPKe1WP1y/VUOKMnp04W6lPCBIj42U0pvJF/aFJv2wIJDhjxbkWGzbJ6/LK9x 0z8kN3jTVhWbbk/2XyHqIukZ5U6pUiaXxxcP1Ug0bnfJNo6qCa4tBswdQdfkIdmWVXgG o31b4hcaZ9xeBl/HgCBmGxAkKSd9q83q1FZQRxcr8csxGl5doIORIXM7TBEctqxzoCe1 YXKXkehkzwq2GlRPmp7aGkD4tK89Vckz8XVYw9uXKvcIt/ZNFssYisdGQEptyxIuzD0L hS4kU8eIbep6mMHC9Q7IZC5geMurXx/ga2S+Ll/sF9OTVK0A9qPEDrPkpNRlYj4+065u 4z/g== Original-Received: by 10.180.106.137 with SMTP id gu9mr9848618wib.20.1342814743894; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.217.79.74 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:05:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <08565583-19B5-4030-A323-D9546703C987@Web.DE> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.212.171 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85959 Archived-At: --e89a8f3babc1cf1a4004c5486b94 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 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!" > > --e89a8f3babc1cf1a4004c5486b94 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Thanks for replying..

i thought there was to overr= ide the user-init-file variable. =C2=A0emacs has been around for so long, s= urely there is a way to have emacs load a custom init.el =C2=A0or 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 cus= tom-file.

--
Greetings

=C2=A0 Pete

"Indentation?! I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!= "


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