From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Larry Evans Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs (load {user-init-file, custom-file} causes duplicate load of both Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:09:16 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289477419 27316 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 12:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:10:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 13:10:11 2010 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 1PGVyi-0000XM-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:10:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGVyh-0006zz-Od for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52975 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGVy9-0006xe-Fb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:09:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGVy7-0002TG-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:09:33 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32973) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGVy7-0002Su-BX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGVy6-0000Ga-1k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:09:30 +0100 Original-Received: from r74-192-37-54.vctrcmta01.vctatx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net ([74.192.37.54]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:09:30 +0100 Original-Received: from cppljevans by r74-192-37-54.vctrcmta01.vctatx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:09:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 87 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r74-192-37-54.vctrcmta01.vctatx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:75337 Archived-At: On 11/11/10 05:22, Larry Evans wrote: > On 11/11/10 01:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> From: Larry Evans >>> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:14:25 -0600 >>> >>> My ~/.emacs file contains (amoung other things): >>> >>> ---{~/.emacs--- >>> (setq user-init-file >>> (expand-file-name "init.el" >>> (expand-file-name ".emacs.d" "~"))) >>> (setq custom-file >>> (expand-file-name "custom.el" >>> (expand-file-name ".xemacs" "~"))) >>> (load-file user-init-file) >>> (load-file custom-file) >>> ---}~/.emacs--- >>> >>> When started with this, the *messages* buffer contains: >>> >>> ---{*messages--- >>> Loading /home/evansl/.emacs.d/init.el (source)... >>> Loading /home/evansl/.recentf...done >>> Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed) >>> Loading /home/evansl/.emacs.d/init.el (source)...done >>> Loading /home/evansl/.xemacs/custom.el (source)... >>> Loading desktop...done >>> Loading /home/evansl/.xemacs/custom.el (source)...done >>> ---}*messages--- >>> >>> Why are both user-init-file and custom-file both loaded twice? >> >> Because you are overriding the values of variables that Emacs uses at >> startup. The startup procedure involves some non-trivial logic for >> loading user-init-file and custom-file, and you are interfering with >> that logic by setting their values in your ~/.emacs, which is read >> half-way through the startup process. >> >> Simply load the files by name, or use other variables. Then Emacs >> should load these files only once, as you want. >> >> > > Hi Eli, > > Unfortunately, after renaming the variables to: > > my-user-init-file > my-custom-file > > the *Messages* buffer still had the duplicate loads. > > My real reason for investigating this is I'm trying to avoid > the error message: > > "Current desktop was not loaded from a file. Overwrite this desktop file? " > > from function desktop-save in desktop.el.gz. A trace in that function > showed: > > desktop-file-modtime > > was nil. Further search in that file showed the only place that was > set was in function desktop-read. So, in .emacs I put: > > (desktop-read) > > However, that didn't work. > > Any help resolving this would be appreciated. [snip] OOPS. A more careful reading of *Messages* shows that the there was a slight difference in the entries: Loading /home/evansl/.xemacs/custom.el (source)... Loading desktop...done Loading /home/evansl/.xemacs/custom.el (source)...done The 1st Loading was for the start of loading. The 2nd, as the trailing ...done indicates, is for the end of the loading. Sorry for noise. However, why am I getting the error message from function desktop-save? -Larry