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Re: bug in 22.0.50.1 ?? no rmailgen.el
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Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Re: bug in 22.0.50.1 ?? no rmailgen.el |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:44:01 -0400 (EDT) |
[regarding ~/.gnu-emacs]
My best and most dispassionate estimation is that it was put there
when the account was created-- it is a standard file in
/etc/skel/-- and/or a file of exactly the same name and contents
was put there by the CVS emacs itself upon installation. I'm
going to guess you don't believe it was the latter.
I just checked all of my CVS sources for GNU Emacs using find and grep
and did not find .gnu-emacs in any of them. If it is a standard file
in your /etc/skel/, please tell those responsible that is an error.
(In my /etc/skel/ directory, there is no mention of Emacs, only BASH
and CSH.)
As I wrote in
(eintr)Default Configuration
There are those who appreciate Emacs' default configuration.
After all, Emacs starts you in C mode when you edit a C file,
starts you in Fortran mode when you edit a Fortran file ... But
when you do know who is going to use Emacs--you, yourself--then it
makes sense to customize Emacs.
Customization is in a ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.el' file. (I started my
.emacs file a long time ago; I cannot bear the standard Emacs; but I
do not expect others to adopt my ~/.emacs file blindly ... or even
having looked at it ... :)
There are also site-wide initialization files:
(eintr)Site-wide Init
In addition to your personal initialization file, Emacs
automatically loads various site-wide initialization files, if
they exist. These have the same form as your `.emacs' file, but
are loaded by everyone.
Two site-wide initialization files, `site-load.el' and
`site-init.el', are loaded into Emacs and then `dumped' if a
`dumped' version of Emacs is created, as is most common. ...
Three other site-wide initialization files are loaded
automatically each time you start Emacs, if they exist. ...
Settings and definitions in your `.emacs' file will overwrite
conflicting settings and definitions in a `site-start.el' file, if
it exists; but the settings and definitions in a `default.el' or
terminal type file will overwrite those in your `.emacs' file.
...
~/.gnu-emacs is none of these.
--
Robert J. Chassell
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