Re: Beginner question: changing startup files requires a rebuild?

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From: Jim Blandy
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 06:38

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In article <1991May5.114435.27549@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:

   I checked the FAQ distributed with 18.57 and the manual but didn't see
   this discussed.  If I change one of the .el files distributed with emacs
   and dumped when emacs is built, do I need to rebuild emacs, redump it,
   or what?

The file loadup.el specifies all the lisp files that are loaded into a
dumped emacs.  These files normally get loaded only at dump time, so
you would need to re-dump emacs for changes to them to make their way
into the default emacs.

  I changed site-init.el and invoked emacs ...

site-init.el is loaded before dumping, so it makes sense that your
changes didn't show up.  If you can't/don't want to redump, you might
try putting your load-path stuff in default.el, which gets loaded each
time emacs starts up, after your .emacs file.
--

-Jim Blandy
jimb@ai.mit.edu

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