From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: default startup mode Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:32:13 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87pssubq82.fsf@wash.edu> <873bpmy6va.fsf@wash.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123530021 30943 80.91.229.2 (8 Aug 2005 19:40:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 08 21:40:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2DSW-0007OE-J6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:38:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2DVX-0000I9-W4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:42:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2DUV-0008Ht-TA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:40:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2DUR-0008FT-Rm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2DUR-0008Ei-2u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1E2Dd2-0008Jn-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E2DNY-0006is-IM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:33:44 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:33:44 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:33:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <873bpmy6va.fsf@wash.edu> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28559 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28559 Baloff wrote: > I went looking for info about startup and found > > Initial Options > =============== > > ... > Some initial options affect the loading of init files. The normal > actions of Emacs are to first load `site-start.el' if it exists, then > your own init file `~/.emacs' if it exists, and finally `default.el' if > it exists; certain options prevent loading of some of these files or > substitute other files for them. > > > how do I find out if "in my case" all 3 files started up or any did > not. If you look at the code in startup.el, you can see that user-init-file is set to nil if ~/.emacs was not loaded, otherwise it should be the full path to the file. Emacs respects the inhibit-default-init file, unless it it's non-nil the default library should have been loaded. Similarly, unless site-run-file is nil the site-start library should have been loaded. However it is possible that any of those files was partially loaded, then aborted due to errors. I don't know if it's possible to detect those cases after the fact, but if you're concerned you should start emacs with the --debug-init option. -- Kevin Rodgers