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From: context@uw-june (Ronald Blanford)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: uEmacs 3.7 doesn't handle multiple rc files
Message-ID: <1182@uw-june>
Date: Sun, 31-Aug-86 18:53:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 31 18:53:13 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 1-Sep-86 18:56:45 EDT
References: <787@investor.UUCP> <12800011@duncan>
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In article <12800011@duncan>, lawrence@duncan.UUCP writes:
> 
> 	The Idea here is that sometimes you want your personal
> .emacsrc file to OVERRIDE the system one. It would not be possible to
> do that if I had coded it the way you asked. On the other hand, a
> single line like:
> 
> execute-file "/usr/local/.emacsrc"
> 
> 	or something similar will allow your .emacsrc file to execute
> the system file.
> 

You can override the system file simply by having the home file execute
last with the appropriate resetting commands.  The way it now stands,
unless the user knows to insert the "execute-file" command, as soon as
he creates his own .emacsrc to customize some aspect of emacs, the
behavior may change drastically due to system defaults no longer being
present. 

It would be better just to execute the system file, and have that one
contain a line like: execute-file "~/.emacsrc", although this may not
work so well on non-Unix systems. 

-- Ron