Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!ritcv!cci632!dch
From: dch@cci632.UUCP (David C. Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Is there a hook for gnu emacs starting up?
Message-ID: <4833@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 14:44:02 GMT
References: <640001@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Reply-To: dch@ccird3.UUCP (David C. Howland)
Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY
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In article <640001@hpcvca.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
>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"
>		...


Put into your .emacs the following

;;;If non-nil, Emacs startup does
;;; (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv "TERM")))
;;; You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
;;; the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.
(setq term-file-prefix "~/term.")

Options/settings that  go into a  .emacs file  should be  global for ALL
editing sessions  across    ALL  terminal types.    Terminal   dependent
options/settings belong in terminal dependent  files as in ~/term.xyz or
~/term.abc.  Where abc and xyz are terminal types.