Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvca!charles From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Is there a hook for gnu emacs starting up? Message-ID: <640001@hpcvca.HP.COM> Date: 8 Mar 88 18:45:23 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon Lines: 10 Is there a hook for gnu emacs starting up? I would like to have the appropriate term/???.elc loaded depending upon $TERM. It is easy to do this in the .emacs file, but that requires N x M files (N users and M computers). Ideally I would like to do: if .emacs exists load .emacs else if $TERM == foo load "term/foo" ...