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From: gildea@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Setting load-path
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Date: 21 Nov 88 21:07:36 GMT
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There are some initializations that are done after the .emacs file is
read.  These include terminal-dependent initializations and creating
the *scratch* buffer.  This is why the form (text-mode) seems to have
no effect in a .emacs file.  See the function command-line in
lisp/startup.el for details.

The original question, from Dave Sill, why setting load-path in a file
loaded with the -load command-line option doesn't work, seems to point
to a bug in Emacs.  During the loading of a file with -load, the
variable load-path is locally bound, thus any attempt to set it from
the loaded file will be undone as soon as the file is finished
loading.

 < Stephen