[comp.emacs] Why is "default.el" loaded AFTER "~/.emacs"

worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (10/09/90)

From various postings:

      Can anybody enlighten me as to why emacs loads the files in the order
      it does?

and:

   (setq inhibit-default-init t)

The reason that emacs loads your .emacs before default.el is so that
your .emacs can suppress default.el *entirely*, by setting
inhibit-default-init.  As Phillip Moore points out, in your .emacs you
can load default manually, set inhibit-default-init, and then override
it to your heart's content.  If default.el were loaded first, there
would be no way to suppress it completely.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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