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From: choo@aqua.cs.yale.edu (young-il choo)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Setting load-path
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Date: 9 Nov 88 22:20:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: dsill@NSWC-OAS.ARPA's message of 8 Nov 88 17:45:50 GMT


In article <32024@bbn.COM> dsill@NSWC-OAS.ARPA (Dave Sill) writes:

   Why doesn't the following command work:
   (setq load-path '("/local/dev/src/18.52/lisp" "/ef80/dsill/lib"))

   It's in ~/.emacsrc, and I invoke Emacs as "emacs -l ~/.emacsrc".  The
   rest of the commands in .emacsrc are executed, and if I manually load
   .emacsrc everything seems to work right.

The answer is that it does work.

The problem is that after .emacsrc is loaded something else is reseting the
load-path -- most likely a locally defined file called "default.el"

If you look in ../lisp/starup.el at "command-line", when emacs starts, it
first processes all the command line arguments (including your -l
~/.emacsrc) and then it loads the user default ~/.emacs AND THEN it loads
default.el, UNLESS, you (setq inhibit-default-init t).

The solution is to (setq inhibit-default-init t), but check your
../local/default.el to see that nothing important is being ignored.

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