From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-init-file source vs. compiled Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:46:18 +0100 Message-ID: <45C20B4A.7030806@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170344845 11095 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2007 15:47:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:47:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 01 16:47:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HCe8w-0004KH-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:46:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HCe8w-0002Ui-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HCe8m-0002T6-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:46:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HCe8k-0002Sc-Bn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:46:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HCe8k-0002SZ-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:46:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HCe8j-0000SA-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:65025 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HCe8i-0001JV-3H; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:46:20 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000709-2, 2007-02-01), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HCe8i-0001JV-3H. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HCe8i-0001JV-3H 0e08b894ca5bf48a6bf1ce53e666779d X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65742 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: >> From the docstring of `user-init-file': > > File name, including directory, of user's initialization file. > If the file loaded had extension `.elc', and the corresponding source file > exists, this variable contains the name of source file, suitable for use > by functions like `custom-save-all' which edit the init file. > > Which is true, *once* the user init file is loaded. While it loads, > `user-init-file' contains the real name of the file loaded: > > ------ .emacs ------ > (message "user-init-file: %S" user-init-file) > -------------------- > > After compiling .emacs and starting Emacs, *messages* contains: > > (C:\emacs\HEAD\bin\emacs.exe) > Loading encoded-kb...done > user-init-file: "c:/home/.emacs.elc" > > I've been struggling to find a clear wording to explain it. Suggestions > welcome. What about the other way round? Changing the behaviour to what the documentation says? Is there any reason that user-init-file should not always point to the source file?