From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Can I preload my ~/.emacs source for editing only? Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 00:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273017146 11518 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 23:52:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 23:52:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 01:52:25 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Rub-0003IA-0d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 01:52:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Rua-0000Wy-Hz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:52:24 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!31g2000prc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 5 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.20.115.135 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1272956758 12734 127.0.0.1 (4 May 2010 07:05:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 07:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 31g2000prc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=154.20.115.135; posting-account=Z9UzlgoAAABhlxMxpOnwLP3k1rhUxBfV User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177895 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73306 Archived-At: 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.