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Re: Where is .emacs in Linux?
From: |
Jean Magnan de Bornier |
Subject: |
Re: Where is .emacs in Linux? |
Date: |
Sun, 10 May 2009 07:09:47 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote :
| > From: Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@bornier.net>
| > Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 20:49:22 +0200
| >
| > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote :
| >
| > | And don't forget to save it (C-x C-s) after editing, and then restart
| > | Emacs for the new/changed settings to take effect.
| >
| > Restart emacs?
| >
| > Why not just let emacs evaluate the file?
>
| Evaluating .emacs will work for simple customizations of options not
| related to display, but will not work in general. That's because
| Emacs loads .emacs early in its startup sequence, and then continues
| the startup sequence using the customizations found on .emacs. In
| addition, .emacs can define several hook functions used by Emacs as
| part of its startup. You cannot reproduce the exact effect of all
| this by simply evaluating the file after the startup sequence is
| finished.
>
| So, in general, it's safer to restart.
Quite clear,
Thank you Eli
--
Jean