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From: rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: uEmacs 3.7 doesn't handle multiple rc files
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Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 10:39:07 EDT
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> 	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.

Afraid not.  If I put that line in my personal .emacsrc I get a bus
error and core dump.  The backtrace indicates this happens in dobuf,
called by dofile, called by startup, called by main.

However, your point is well taken.  My solution is to append the
global file to my personal file.  Another solution might be to use

	alias emacs '/usr/local/emacs @/usr/lib/emacs/.emacsrc'

I haven't tried it, but "@" does work inconjunction with .emacsrc.

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