Re: Running emacs without any customisation

[Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>]

On 10/10/2022 13:54, uzibalqa wrote:
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Monday, October 10th, 2022 at 11:46 AM, Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So I see two things here.
>>
>> First, even with an empty .emacs, just running emacs might not the
>> equivalent of "emacs -Q", as it will still load the system-wide
>> configuration files (the "site-elisp").
>>
>> Second, running emacs with an empty .emacs should not result in a black
>> background. The cause is almost certainly in the xepty.el file where all
>> the functions and variables used here are (I hope) defined.
> (xepty 'nogo) should not even load "xepty.el".  Hom can one figure out
> what "site-elisp" could be doing?

Oh, right, sorry, I missed the unless.

On my system (ubuntu) there are configuration files in /usr/share/emacs, 
/usr/share/emacsen-common and /etc/emacs. I don't know if they are all run.

Regardless, the site lisp should not cause emacs to fail to start or 
start with a black screen. To test it, you can run emacs without your 
config but with most site-lisp with emacs -q.

I assume that you don't get the black screen with -Q? And that you don't 
have any other configuration files in your .emacs.d (for example 
early-init.el) ?

Best wishes,

Thibaut

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>> On 10/10/2022 13:36, uzibalqa wrote:
>>
>>> I have the following in my .emacs file. Calling (xepty 'nogo) should
>>> not execute anything. But when I run emacs, I get a black background.
>>>
>>> I thought I would get the equivalent of "emacs -Q".
>>>
>>> (defun xepty (&optional statck)
>>> "Launch xepty tools for Emacs."
>>>
>>> (unless (equal statck 'nogo)
>>> (add-to-list 'load-path "${HOME}/xepty/")
>>> (load "xepty")
>>> (xepty-tools)))
>>>
>>> (xepty 'nogo)
>>>
>>> (custom-set-variables
>>> '(savehist-additional-variables '(xepty-frame-pos))
>>> '(xepty-frame-pos '(34 . 34)))