From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: best gnu/linux distro for emacs Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:04:22 -0600 Message-ID: <20130324040422.GA12689@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <87y5dep0al.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364097873 24505 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2013 04:04:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:04:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 24 05:05:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJcB1-0003ps-Kk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:04:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJcAd-0002ci-Lb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:04:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37191) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJcAS-0002cc-EA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJcAR-0007jS-Je for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:57469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJcAR-0007jO-Ci for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DCF211D5 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:04:22 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 64D822DCC4; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:04:22 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89710 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Jay Belanger wrote: > > I recall there were some complaints that Debian had some odd Emacs > > setup; I don't recall the details, but I seem to recall David Kastrup > > pointing them out. Does anybody remember? > > They put a dummy site-start.el under /etc somewhere. This can catch you > out if you have your real site-start.el in a normal Emacs place such as > /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el since the dummy one gets > loaded instead of the real one. The empty template file is: /etc/emacs/site-start.el What makes /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el the normal path and /etc/emacs/site-start.el something not normal? In any case... One could always put the customizations in that file. That is rather what is expected. Or one could add a load statement there to load /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el if you want to keep the customizations there. It is six of one or a half dozen of the other. Bob