From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Documentation on default.el vs site-start.el Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:29:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129768437 15025 80.91.229.2 (20 Oct 2005 00:33:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 02:33:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESOLx-00043v-AA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:32:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESOLw-0005t6-N5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESOLu-0005t1-P2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:32:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESOLt-0005so-Ac for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:32:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESOLt-0005sl-8D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1ESOLt-0008QN-1X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ESOKF-0002yB-Ks for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:30:32 +0200 Original-Received: from linus003.dd.chalmers.se ([129.16.117.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from bojohan+news by linus003.dd.chalmers.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:30:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: linus003.dd.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sxsQTpyt2er2CE+aDbUQQqsm6Do= X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:13563 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers writes: > `C-h v site-run-file' also says that it is customizable, but that > seems pointless: by the time the customization is done (whether in > custom-file, .emacs, or default.el) the default site-run-file has > already been loaded. In CVS Emacs the docstring already contains the following paragraph: This variable is defined for customization so as to make it visible in the relevant context. However, actually customizing it is not allowed, since it would not work anyway. The only way to set this variable usefully is to set it while building and dumping Emacs. -- Johan Bockgård