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From: phil@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Phil Ritzenthaler)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: startup.el
Summary: adding hooks to a term file
Message-ID: <30438@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 89 14:00:27 GMT
References: <2225@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <35065@think.UUCP>
Organization: Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
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In article <35065@think.UUCP>, rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) writes:
> 
> What you should do is load whatever terminal setup code you wish (you
> can crib code from startup.el if you want to load the terminal init
> file and overload it with your stuff) and set term-file-prefix to nil.
> This will inhibit loading the terminal setup file.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I REALLY don't think you want to do this!

Instead, might I suggest what was done with Suns.  In the sun.el file, about 
1/2 way through, there are some simple lines:

     ;;; Since .emacs gets loaded before this file, a hook is supplied
     ;;; for you to put your own bindings in.
     
     (defvar sun-raw-map-hooks nil
       "List of forms to evaluate after setting sun-raw-map.")
     
     (let ((hooks sun-raw-map-hooks))
       (while hooks
	 (eval (car hooks))
	 (setq hooks (cdr hooks))
	 ))

In another file, then, I have:
    (defvar sun-raw-map-hooks nil
                 .
                 .
                 .
     )
     (setq sun-raw-map-hooks '(
     
	  (define-key sun-raw-map "208z" 'replace-string)         ;; R1
                                       .
                                       .
                                       .
     ))

Which sets up the hook maps needed to remap the keys to what I want.  This hook
file is then loaded from the .emacs file.

I was originally going to do what was previously mentioned and go in and change
the startup.el file, but I thought that 1.)  then I would have to remember to
change it every time I installed a new version and 2.)  it was time I learned
how to work ==> WITH <== GNU Emacs and not against it.

What troubles me is that these hooks are provided ONLY with the sun terminal
file.  After working with them,  I can't understand why these aren't provided
to the user for other defined terminals . . . rms??

Phil Ritzenthaler   Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design  (ACCAD)
Systems Manager     The Ohio State University
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