Re: customization of browse-url has no effect

[Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl>]

upro <upro@gmx.net> writes:

> bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:
>
>> upro <upro@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl> writes:
>>
>>>> 3) you have a default.el that does this. To test the latter
>>>> possibility, put
>>>>
>>>> (setq inhibit-default-init t)
>>>>
>>>> in your .emacs to prevent loading default.el.
>>
>>> You're great - with inhibit-default-init in .emacs it finally works!
>> [...]
>>> How come my custzom variable was not taken?
>>
>> Point 3) above.
>>
>> M-x locate-library RET default RET
>>
>> will tell you where the file is.
>
> Oops - strange enough I don't have a file default.el... 

Really?  But, your Emacs does behave differently (i.e., with respect
to setting browse-url-browser-function on startup) when you put (setq
inhibit-default-init t) in your .emacs?  Amazing.  At this point I
would start grepping my hard disk.  ;-)

> How can a default value override my browse-program customization of
> there is no default.el file?!?

I'm baffled.

> Should I try to find one? I've been fine without until now...

There is no need to get one.  It's just that its presence would
explain the problem you were experiencing.

Lute.

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