From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Larry Evans Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs (load {user-init-file, custom-file} causes duplicate load of both Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:22:39 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289474623 14105 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 11:23:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:23:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 12:23:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGVFh-0004dS-Sz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:23:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGVFh-0001Xu-1z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54733 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGVF3-0001Xm-6G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGVF1-0000ss-Qb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:22:56 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46296) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGVF1-0000se-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:22:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGVEy-00048S-4A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:22:52 +0100 Original-Received: from r74-192-37-54.vctrcmta01.vctatx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net ([74.192.37.54]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:22:51 +0100 Original-Received: from cppljevans by r74-192-37-54.vctrcmta01.vctatx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:22:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 72 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r74-192-37-54.vctrcmta01.vctatx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:75336 Archived-At: On 11/11/10 01:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Larry Evans >> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:14:25 -0600 >> >> My ~/.emacs file contains (amoung other things): >> >> ---{~/.emacs--- >> (setq user-init-file >> (expand-file-name "init.el" >> (expand-file-name ".emacs.d" "~"))) >> (setq custom-file >> (expand-file-name "custom.el" >> (expand-file-name ".xemacs" "~"))) >> (load-file user-init-file) >> (load-file custom-file) >> ---}~/.emacs--- >> >> When started with this, the *messages* buffer contains: >> >> ---{*messages--- >> Loading /home/evansl/.emacs.d/init.el (source)... >> Loading /home/evansl/.recentf...done >> Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed) >> Loading /home/evansl/.emacs.d/init.el (source)...done >> Loading /home/evansl/.xemacs/custom.el (source)... >> Loading desktop...done >> Loading /home/evansl/.xemacs/custom.el (source)...done >> ---}*messages--- >> >> Why are both user-init-file and custom-file both loaded twice? > > Because you are overriding the values of variables that Emacs uses at > startup. The startup procedure involves some non-trivial logic for > loading user-init-file and custom-file, and you are interfering with > that logic by setting their values in your ~/.emacs, which is read > half-way through the startup process. > > Simply load the files by name, or use other variables. Then Emacs > should load these files only once, as you want. > > Hi Eli, Unfortunately, after renaming the variables to: my-user-init-file my-custom-file the *Messages* buffer still had the duplicate loads. My real reason for investigating this is I'm trying to avoid the error message: "Current desktop was not loaded from a file. Overwrite this desktop file? " from function desktop-save in desktop.el.gz. A trace in that function showed: desktop-file-modtime was nil. Further search in that file showed the only place that was set was in function desktop-read. So, in .emacs I put: (desktop-read) However, that didn't work. Any help resolving this would be appreciated. -Larry