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From: rbj@dsys.icst.nbs.GOV (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: runtime hook
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Date: 17 May 89 19:12:00 GMT
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? From: odi!benson@uunet.uu.net  (Benson Margulies)

? Is there a hook (18.53-wise) that can be set in site-init.el to cause a function
? to run when emacs is started up?

Yes. It's called `load'. Let me explain. When you build emacs, you compile
all the .c files and link them all together to build `temacs'. The
Makefile then executes `temacs -l loadup.el dump'. Scanning the source
of lisp/loadup.el reveals that it loads several packages, including
site-init.el. When loading a file, all the lisp forms are executed as
if they were typed (more or less). Say you wanted to preload dired.el
into your dumped emacs. You can just put the form `(load "dired")' into
site-init.el in the lisp directory. There is also a `site-load.el' that
gets loaded in a different place; I am not quite sure what the real
distinction is. There is also a convention on how the doc strings are
loaded; see loadup or loaddefs for details.

Doing the above will preload emacs for everyone. If you only want to
do this for yourself, a better solution is to put the `(load "dired")'
in your private .emacs file. In either case, you may add other forms
besides (load ...) in either file, to set variables, remap keys, etc.
Around here, we use site-init.el to remap ^Q & ^S to ^^ and ^\. Good luck!

? Benson I. Margulies	odi!benson@talcott.harvard.edu

	Root Boy Jim is what I am
	Are you what you are or what?