Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>]

mil_DocOutAbsgebser@ameritech.net wrote:

> Kai Großjohann at 13:51 (UTC+0100) on Wed, 5 Feb 2003 said:
> 
> = gebser@ameritech.net writes:
> = 
> = > Kai Großjohann at 18:30 (UTC+0100) on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 said:
> = >
> = > I was following the documentation.  What would be the way to load a 
> = > *.texi file?
> = 
> = It doesn't make sense to "load" a *.texi file.  You can convert it to
> = info format with M-x texinfo-format-buffer RET or with the external
> = makeinfo program.  (Though the latter doesn't work in this case, of
> = course...)
> 
> Hmmm....  I loaded tramp.texi into a buffer, then did "M-x
> texinfo-format-buffer RET" and it halted midway with the cursor on a
> line saying "@macro trampver{}" and with the comment "@macro is not
> handled by texinfo".


In Emacs terminology, you visited the file in a buffer (via `find-file').
The term "load" specifically means to load an Emacs Lisp source (.el) or
byte-compiled (.elc) file.


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