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From: mdb@amadeus.UUCP (Mark D. Baushke)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gold key
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Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 21:49:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 21:49:30 1987
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I would guess that you have run into the problem of WHEN emacs
executes your ~/.emacs file. It is executed BEFORE the terminal
dependent stuff. This means that the terminal dependent stuff is
probably getting re-defined after it is set in your .emacs.

Folks in the bug-gnu-emacs list have discussed the question of when
~/.emacs should be executed. I think most agreed that executing it
first allows for more customization, which is desirable for GNU Emacs
users.

A simple way to do what you want is to put a line like the following
into your ~/.emacs file:

	(setq term-setup-hook 'edt-emulation-on)

		or maybe 

	(if (string= (getenv "TERM") "vt100")
	    (setq term-setup-hook 'edt-emulation-on))

depending on what your intent is.

This hook is run (see $EMACS/lisp/startup.el) after the terminal
dependent code is run. The hook allows for customization to be applied
after the default setup was performed.

An alternative, is to define the vt100.el (or whatever terminal setup
you are interested in providing) into a sub-directory called "term"
contained in a directory which may contain your own versions of lisp
files (say "emacs-lisp") which you add to the load-path emacs
variable. In order to get emacs to use your private directory, you
could add the following to your ~/.emacs :

(if (not (let ((found nil)
	       (t-list load-path)
	       (my-load-path (expand-file-name "~/emacs-lisp")))
	   (while (and (not found)
		       t-list)
	     (if (equal (car t-list) my-load-path)
		 (setq found t-list))
	     (setq t-list (cdr t-list)))
	   found))
    (setq load-path (cons my-load-path load-path)))

or if you don't care that you might already have "~/emacs-lisp" in your
load path, just adding the next line is good enough

	(setq load-path (cons my-load-path load-path))

This bit of lisp adds the directory "emacs-lisp" located in your home
directory to the search path used by emacs. Including where it will
look for "term/vt100.el". Using this method, you may provide a private
customization for any terminal type you wish. Emacs will always search
your directory first before looking into the default load-path
(usually $EMACS/lisp). You can even use this to over-ride the
definitions of standard functions like shell, by providing your own
copy of the lisp file which emacs uses during autoload.

Either way works. It is a matter of choice.

Note: Having your own copies of vt100.el may give you more work to
keep up with any changes made at your site to the originals.

Mark Baushke
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