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Subject: GNU emacs reads terminal file
Message-ID: <206@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 18:47:59 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 23 18:47:59 1986
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Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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>2. Give user the option NOT to have the TERMINAL.el file read at all
>-- probably a command line option.

I simply added a local feature to check the variable inhibit-terminal-defaults
it looks like this in my 17.36 startup.el:

;;; BZS - add a flag to let the user inhibit term def loading
(defvar inhibit-terminal-defaults nil
  "if non-nil prevents loading of default terminal definition at startup")

and then later in command-line (the first line should be there already):

    ;;>> Would be nice if there were a way for user to inhibit this
    ;;>>>BZS - there is now, set inhibit-terminal-defaults to t in .emacs
    (if (and (not noninteractive) (not inhibit-terminal-defaults))
	(load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv "TERM")) t t))

so as the comment says a user can add the line:

(setq inhibit-terminal-defaults t)

to their .emacs file and do what they like. I assumed it was so obvious
there was a reason this wasn't done so I never sent it in although it
was clear my users wanted it. Anyone from GNU Central want to comment?

	-Barry Shein, Boston University