From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: default.el and site-start.el Date: 27 Jun 2003 16:24:20 -0400 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5ladc35kwb.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <86fzlvrbkv.fsf@bigwalter.net> <342pfvgngqokun85dntsata2d2pisum7ll@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056748033 6176 80.91.224.249 (27 Jun 2003 21:07:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 27 23:07:12 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19W0R6-0001bH-00 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:07:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19W0PG-0005SX-5d for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:05:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!news.wss.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-Trace: news.wss.yale.edu 1056745464 28707 128.36.229.169 (27 Jun 2003 20:24:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.wss.yale.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:24:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 27 Jun 2003 16:24:20 -0400, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114799 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11292 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11292 > Yes: it doesn't explain why there are two site-wide init > files, hence the question. site-start.el should be used to set up locally-installed packages (i.e. setup autoloads for them, set the load-path, set the auto-mode-alist). I don't actually use default.el because it can create surprise when the user sets something in his .emacs and it gets overridden by default.el. It is generally desirable to keep "configuration" in those files to a minimum: only setup locally installed packages, provide some more meaningful defaults for news-server address, mail-server address and things like that, but that's about it. Stefan