* test whether init file loaded without error
@ 2008-03-21 16:49 Drew Adams
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From: Drew Adams @ 2008-03-21 16:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs-Devel
Is there an easy way for Lisp code to test whether a user's
init file was loaded without error? I imagine that it could
try to use `after-init-hook' in some way (not sure how,
though), but is there some straightforward way to test this?
For example: A user's init file might use code that sets up
`kill-emacs-hook' to save some custom variable. But it might
be inappropriate to do that if the init file was not loaded
successfully. The init file might, for example, define
`custom-file' at the end, and if an error were raised during
load, before the `custom-file' definition, then exiting
Emacs would cause `kill-emacs-hook' to write the
customization (incorrectly) to the init file instead of the
`custom-file'.
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* test whether init file loaded without error
@ 2008-04-11 19:43 Drew Adams
2008-04-12 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Drew Adams @ 2008-04-11 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
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From: Drew Adams Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 9:49 AM
Is there an easy way for Lisp code to test whether a user's
init file was loaded without error? I imagine that it could
try to use `after-init-hook' in some way (not sure how,
though), but is there some straightforward way to test this?
For example: A user's init file might use code that sets up
`kill-emacs-hook' to save some custom variable. But it might
be inappropriate to do that if the init file was not loaded
successfully. The init file might, for example, define
`custom-file' at the end, and if an error were raised during
load, before the `custom-file' definition, then exiting
Emacs would cause `kill-emacs-hook' to write the
customization (incorrectly) to the init file instead of the
`custom-file'.
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* Re: test whether init file loaded without error
2008-04-11 19:43 Drew Adams
@ 2008-04-12 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2008-04-12 8:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: emacs-devel
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:43:12 -0700
>
> Is there an easy way for Lisp code to test whether a user's
> init file was loaded without error?
From reading the code in startup.el, it looks like init-file-had-error
is set to a non-nil value when the user init file causes an error
during evaluation. For a good measure, also check user-init-file for
a value that is a string (meaning that Emacs actually found a file to
serve as an init file).
If you already tried that and it didn't work, please post the details.
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