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Re: winows emacs - portable app
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: winows emacs - portable app |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:47:42 +0300 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:08:36 -0700
>
> > M-x load-file
>
> But note that this will not always have the same effect as loading
> .emacs as an init file, because Emacs loads the init file half way
> through its startup procedure, precisely in time to customize certain
> aspects of the appearance before they are set to default. For
> example, if your .emacs is setting parameters of the initial frame,
> those settings will not work if you load .emacs after startup.
>
> I'm not an expert here, and I don't know how you happen to launch Emacs, but
> if you do it from (the equivalent of) a command line, and you use the "-l"
> option to load a file, then the same processing that Eli described for
> .emacs will take place for that file. At least that's what I find wrt the
> initial frame, standalone minibuffer frame etc.
Loading .emacs from the command line is similar, but not identical to
loading it automatically from the user's home directory. For example,
the after-init-hook is run _before_ any files mentioned on the command
line are loaded.