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From: Marco Baringer <empb@bese.it>
Cc: emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: *.el files
Date: 09 Sep 2002 18:28:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u1kzw2jv.fsf@bese.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209091546400.6121-100000@laptop.rkc>

Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de writes:

> Thank you very much, kai. Is there a special reason for using requite
> instead of load?

require will load the file (not really, but see the docs for require
for the gory details) only if it has not already been loaded, load
will always load it. in your .emacs it's not a big difference since
that only gets loaded once, but the convention is to use require
everywhere.

-- 
-Marco
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
     -Leonard Cohen

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-09 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1031561802.29468.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-09-09 11:26 ` *.el files Kai Großjohann
2002-09-09 13:48   ` Raimund.Kohl
2002-09-09 16:28     ` Marco Baringer [this message]
2002-09-09 11:37 ` Jonas Steverud
2002-09-09 17:49 ` kgold
2002-09-09  8:51 Raimund.Kohl

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