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From: bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Is there a hook for gnu emacs starting up?
Message-ID: <690004@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 88 18:28:13 GMT
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Organization: HP SEMC, Cupertino, CA
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Charles Brown (charles@hpcvca.HP.COM) asks:
> Is there a hook for gnu emacs starting up?  I would like to have the
> appropriate term/???.elc loaded depending upon $TERM.

At startup, your Gnu Emacs should automatically load the terminal type
you're using.  If your $TERM is "hp", for instance, you'll get the
effect of `(load-library "term/hp")'.  [The load-library function loads
the .elc file if it exists, or the .el file if not.]

For this to work, you'll need an entry in term/ for whatever values of
$TERM that you use.  There are two ways to make this happen when the
number of term/ entries don't match the number of $TERM possibilities:
increase the term/ entries or map the $TERM values to what's in term/.

If you want to increase the term/ entries, I suggest links.  Suppose
you edit on either an hp2392 or a new HP 700/92 (called, say,
hp70092), and you want both to use the term/bobcat.elc file.  First,
M-x byte-compile-file term/bobcat.el.  Then, to make links:

	% cd /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/term	# or wherever
	% ln bobcat.elc hp2392.elc
	% ln bobcat.elc hp70092.elc

On the other hand, to map $TERM values to bobcat, tell your shell to
pretend that you're on a bobcat terminal if you're on a hp2392 or
hp70092 with a script or shell function like:

	case $TERM in
	hp2392|hp70092) TERM=bobcat gnumacs $*;;
	esac

(I take the easy way out and use in my .emacs file:

	(load "local/term/hp")		; DWIM with C-h and DEL

where /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/local/term/hp.elc is a file that maps
my arrow keys and terminal editing keys to emacs functions.  Jack
Repenning posted it many moons ago; I can forward you a copy or post
it if there's enough interest.)

bob desinger	bd@hpsemc%hplabs.HP.COM		ucbvax!hpda!hpsemc!bd