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From: jbw@bucsb.UUCP (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Load order of 'site' files and '~/.emacs'
Summary: Pnews garbage
Message-ID: <2182@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 20:51:33 GMT
References: <812@novavax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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In article <812@novavax.UUCP> weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) writes:
>...  Look in
><GNUEMACS_DIR>/lisp/startup.el and I believe you will find that
>'site-init' or 'site-load' is loaded AFTER your .emacs init file.
>This may account for the fact that your init file works only if you
>execute it manually after starting emacs.
[stuff deleted]
>-- 
>Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc.,   USENET:  ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner
>(407) 738-2087

The code in lisp/startup.el does these things in this order:
1) Loads user's ~/.emacs file.
2) Loads system-wide lisp/default.el file.
3) Loads terminal-setup lisp/term/*.el file.
4) Processes most command-line arguments.
5) Runs term-setup-hook.
6) Runs window-setup-hook.

Anyone who needs something executed after the code in lisp/default.el
can put it on term-setup-hook or window-setup-hook.  lisp/site-init.el
and lisp/site-load.el are loaded from lisp/loadup.el which is normally
loaded before Emacs is dumped, on machines that support unexec.

--
Joe Wells
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