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From: kerpelma@othello.steinmetz (Kerpelman)
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Subject: Re: getting sys$login:.emacs loaded
Message-ID: <6833@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 11:16:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 11:16:08 1987
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Keywords: vms init file .emacs

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In article <683@julian.UWO.CDN> peter@julian.UUCP writes:

>I was trying to set up some keyboard re-mappings for version 17.VMS4 of
>GNUEMACS on our VMS system.  I read the instructions and created a file
>named sys$login:.emacs with the appropriate lisp code in it.  It never gets
>loaded.

I'm using version 18 but I seem to recall that under version 17, you have to
define a logical for your emacs initialization file as follows:

$define emacsini sys$login:.emacs

Since emacs searches via a logical, the file name can be anything.  You can
put this statement in your login.com file.  If you're planning to use version
18, things change.  In particular, I believe the existence of a .emacs file
in your sys$login directory is sufficient, as you expected.  Also, your
initialization file gets executed BEFORE the standard initialization file
which can cause some problems.  I've seen a work around for this.

Hope this is accurate and that it helps.


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