* loading configuration file for emacs 21.4.1 @ 2012-07-20 14:47 Sze Chan 2012-07-20 19:56 ` Peter Dyballa 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Sze Chan @ 2012-07-20 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 239 bytes --] For my shared hosting account and for work, I am using emacs 21.4.1. I dislike emacs editing in php mode so I created an init.el and emacs.el file in ~/.emacs.d it does not load the configuration file. please help! Sze sze.chan@acm.org [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 364 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: loading configuration file for emacs 21.4.1 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 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Peter Dyballa @ 2012-07-20 19:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sze Chan; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs 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!" ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: loading configuration file for emacs 21.4.1 2012-07-20 19:56 ` Peter Dyballa @ 2012-07-20 20:05 ` Sze Chan 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Sze Chan @ 2012-07-20 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Peter Dyballa; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 723 bytes --] 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!" > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1117 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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