From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can I preload my ~/.emacs source for editing only?
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 09:29:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5ls6s6g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ce5e8a68-77ea-4418-8a77-65e7d8ad1f17@31g2000prc.googlegroups.com
Bill <bsagert@gmail.com> writes:
> When emacs is running I can C-x C-f to load my ~/.emacs source into a
> buffer for editing. That is easy enough, but I would like to know how
> to do it programmaticaly so it preloads on startup. Using (load "path-
> to-dot-emacs") makes emacs protest about redundant evaluation. This
> newbie just wants to edit, not evaluate.
Why do you use load then? find-file would appear to be what you are
looking for.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-04 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 7:05 Can I preload my ~/.emacs source for editing only? Bill
2010-05-04 7:29 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-05-04 10:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-05-04 15:16 ` jpkotta
2010-05-04 17:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-05-05 20:08 ` jpkotta
2010-05-05 23:11 ` Steven Knight
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