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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: startup.el
Message-ID: <34053@bbn.COM>
Date: 3 Jan 89 18:45:34 GMT
References: <2225@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <35065@think.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz)

In article <35065@think.UUCP>, rlk@think (Robert Krawitz) writes:
>In article <2225@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, Dave Lawrence writes:
>]I honestly don't understand why .emacs is not the last elisp file loaded ...
>
>Emacs does the correct thing by loading your .emacs file first.  If
>term-file-prefix is nil, emacs will not attempt to load the terminal
>initialization file.

... and if you need something eval'd after the terminal-dependent
files are loaded, hang it on term-setup-hook.  You can even put all of
your initialization there if you are so inclined.  ;-)
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/jr
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