From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44442 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Autoloads no longer working? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:59:36 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <877kmvups8.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com> <87pu0mu6it.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019948625 23489 127.0.0.1 (27 Apr 2002 23:03:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 171bEH-00066k-00 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:03:45 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 171bAd-00009O-00; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:59:59 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:00:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA17784 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:59:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 29432 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2002 22:59:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29426 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2002 22:59:40 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmailr@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Apr 2002 22:59:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15822 invoked by uid 500); 27 Apr 2002 22:59:59 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:32:49 +0200") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44442 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44442 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: > I wonder if Debian could allow users to frob the load-path before the > standard w3 package is loaded? Maybe read a file ~/.emacs.first, if > it exists? Start emacs with --no-site-file, but *without* -q. In .emacs, do user-specific load-path frobbing and then load site-start. This might be thwarted if site-start adds load-path entries ahead of the user's and then (require)s libraries from the site directories; that could be worked around by (require)ing the libraries in .emacs before loading site-start. But it would be better if site-start added load-path entries only when locate-library says that a library is not already locatable. Maybe there ought to be separate user-load-path and site-load-path variables; user-load-path would always be consulted first, and site-start would only modify site-load-path. paul