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From: lius@nucsrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: global-set-key in .emacs
Message-ID: <3910012@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 02:25:46 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 02:25:46 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 22:07:56 EDT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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>I'm attempting to use global-set-key in my .emacs file but
>it acts like the default bindings are being set after the .emacs file is
>loaded, so my bindings never take effect.

It is right.
Emacs's loading sequences are: 

  ~/.emacs => emacs default files 
           => term-setup-hook 
           => files under option "-l"

Therefore, you may fix it with the following two methods:
1. Create your initialization file, saying "init.el".
Do one of the following steps:
2. Create an alias for emacs, such as
   alias emacs 'emacs \!* -l init'   (you may insert it in ~/.login)
or
2'. Insert the following code in your ".emacs"

    (setq term-setup-hook 
      '(lambda () 
	 (load "init")))

Both 2 and 2' work because init.el will be loaded after 
all default files have been loaded by emacs.

Sying-Syang Liu
Dept. of EECS, Northwestern University
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