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From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Is there a hook for gnu emacs starting up?
Message-ID: <640003@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 88 18:08:03 GMT
References: <640001@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> >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.")

This is precisely what I was trying to avoid.  I maintain the emacs
sources on several machines.  I do not have access to all of the users
.emacs file (nor do I want it).

> 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.

This does not mean anything to me.  The reason I have the conditional
in my psuedo code at the top is because HP terminals and
pseudo-terminals have a bewildering array of identifiers, yet they all
use the same term/hp.el file.

Fortunately a couple of people have sent me a solution which fits what
I need.  A file named default.el will be loaded at startup time.  This
is 'documented' in the source of startup.el.  :-(   Anyway, this works
well.  :-)
	charles@hp-pcd