>>>>> "Billy" == Billy Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Billy> 1. Emacs doesn't seem to load the site-start.el from the
Billy> /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp. when I put the site-start.el file as .emacs
Billy> in my home directory, it works. It used to work with my Slackware 2.3
Billy> system with emacs 19.28. I browse through the info files for emacs
Billy> (not very thoroughly I must admit) and could not find anything.
Emacs just does a load of "site-start". This means three things.
First of all, site-start.el only needs to be in load-path (i.e. in one
of the directories listed in the variable `load-path'). It does not
have to be any specific directory.
Second, if there is more than one copy oif site-start.el, it may
shadow the version you think you are loading.
Third, if somebody happened to compile site-start.el, this compiled
version would take precedence over the other, though you ought to get
a warning if the .el file is newer than the .elc one.
You can use the command `locate-library' to check this. Typing:
M-x locate-library site-start
would display precisely which file emacs gets hold of when loading
site-start.
Another trick is to start emacs up without any default loads as in:
emacs --no-site-file -q
turn on debugging by evaluating
(setq debug-on-error t)
and then perform the actions of the start up procedure (i.e. loading
site-start, .emacs and then default). This way you get immediate
feedback if an error happens somewhere deeply buried in the
initialization phase.
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