From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23.1.1 Windoze doesn't locate/run site-lisp.el/default.el anymore (bug??) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249354236 25830 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2009 02:50:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 02:50:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 04 04:50:29 2009 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 4.50) id 1MYA6f-00066V-5c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:50:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYA6e-0007q8-Kx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:50:28 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.4.103.130 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249350956 1249 127.0.0.1 (4 Aug 2009 01:55:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 01:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=61.4.103.130; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 rndgate.rnd.clarion.com.my:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171541 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:66721 Archived-At: On Aug 3, 6:50=A0am, Peter Milliken wrote: > Just loaded Emacs 23.1.1 for Windoze and now my site-lisp.el file nolonge= r > seems to run. > Just for the hell of it, I copied the default.el into c:/emacs/site-lisp = - > and Emacs appears to run it from that location - which is NOT where I wan= t > my personal customisations to reside! > > Nothing else has changed i.e. my HOME directory prior to starting Emacs i= s > still pointing to where the site-start.el/default.el files are located. Emacs has never automatically run site-lisp.el and default.el files from the HOME directory, unless your HOME directory happens to be called site-lisp and is in the parent directory of your previous Emacs installation, I don't see how this could have worked without customizations in .emacs