>>>>> On Tue, 06 Jul 2021, akater wrote: > Info node “The Emacs Initialization File” mentions
> - init.el which is described in enough detail > - default.el which is found via “the standard search path for libraries” > — what would that be? > - site-start.el instead of which Gentoo has site-gentoo.el (I guess) — > but when is it loaded and how does Emacs know to load site-gentoo.el? > and why isn't it compiled? > - early-init.el, “loaded before the package system and GUI is > initialized” — is it loaded before or after site-gentoo? They're run in the order 1. early-init.el, 2. site-start.el, 3. init.el (or equivalently ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.el), 4. default.el. Gentoo has only site-start.el but no default.el, so the user can override the site configuration in their private init file. One difference to the upstream default is that we place site-start.el in /etc/emacs (rather than /usr/share/emacs) because it is a configuration file. Typically, site-start.el will then load site-gentoo.el which contains initialization for the installed elisp packages. > And does Gentoo load anything else, by chance? I guess /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el qualifies for that, it adds all package dirs to the load-path. Ulrich
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