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Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de writes:

> Thank you very much, kai. Is there a special reason for using requite
> instead of load?

require will load the file (not really, but see the docs for require
for the gory details) only if it has not already been loaded, load
will always load it. in your .emacs it's not a big difference since
that only gets loaded once, but the convention is to use require
everywhere.

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