From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lute Kamstra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customization of browse-url has no effect Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 17:42:42 +0200 Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87issl7iya.fsf@web.de> <87addx7hh2.fsf@gmx.net> <87vfwlpipm.fsf@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052408794 6981 80.91.224.249 (8 May 2003 15:46:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 15:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 08 17:46:32 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DnbL-0001oP-00 for ; Thu, 08 May 2003 17:46:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Dnaa-00048i-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 11:45:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!surfnet.nl!news.surfnet.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: occarina.pna.cwi.nl Original-X-Trace: news.surfnet.nl 1052408562 26663 192.16.184.200 (8 May 2003 15:42:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.surfnet.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 15:42:42 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87vfwlpipm.fsf@gmx.net> (upro@gmx.net's message of "Thu, 08 May 2003 17:21:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:29CaAfCA2BAG2TRkGBlkP4FlETM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112956 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9451 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9451 upro writes: > bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes: > >> upro writes: >> >>> Lute Kamstra 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. -- (spook) => "Perl-RSA CNCIS sweep" (insert-file-contents "~/.signature") => (error "`~/.signature' too rude")