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From: rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: uEmacs doesn't handle multiple rc files
Message-ID: <810@investor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 13:53:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 23 13:53:47 1986
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In an earlier posinting I suggested uEmacs 3.7 should read both the
global and a personal .emacsrc file.  It was pointed out that failure
to do so was a feature and that one should include 'execute-file xxx' in
the personal rc file to read the global file.  I responded that
attempting this caused a core dump in the dobuf function.  I have now
had a chance to look at the code and discovered why.

Under Unix, emacs expects a file called "emacs_lib_path/.emacsrc" and a
personal file called "$HOME/.emacsrc".  If it finds the latter, it
doesn't read the former.  However, if the latter has the line

	execute-file emacs_lib_path/.emacsrc

the program tries to assign the same buffer name to both files and croaks.

The solution is to do the following:

	cd emacs_lib_path
	ln .emacsrc emacs.rc
	cd

	insert 'execute-file emacs_lib_path/emacs.rc' in .emacsrc

This causes the program to have different buffer names for the two files
and both are executed correctly.
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