Order of operations in .emacs? about dot-emacs HOT 6 CLOSED

emacswatcher [email protected] writes:

I've got my forked version building clean, but I am having trouble with
using the built resources in my .emacs itself. No matter where I load my
settings.el, it keeps getting clobbered by things in init.el. It currently
looks like this:

;; .emacs
;; set up load-path
(load-file "/home/emacs/load-path.el")
(require 'load-path)
(require 'autoloads)
(require 'cus-load)
(load-file "/home/emacs/settings.el")
(add-hook 'after-init-hook
`(lambda ()
(load-file "/home/emacs/init.el"))
t)

How far off am I from your intended usage?

Without knowing what your init.el is doing, I cannot say for sure. What
"things" are getting clobbered?

John

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Sorry, I should have been more specific. My init is copied from yours. I removed the Mac-specific code and added use-package for my packages and adjusted your keybindings to my liking. Other than that, it's your code.

The settings that are clobbered include:

Frame size
Faces
Fonts

I can see them being set as emacs starts up -- and then being overwritten back to defaults as it progresses. All are restored and behave normally if I M-x load-file setting.el after startup completes.

I've tried commenting out parts of init to look for a culprit with no success, so i thought I'd make sure I was using the resources correctly.

Any thoughts? (And thanks for making the code available!)

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emacswatcher [email protected] writes:

Any thoughts? (And thanks for making the code available!)

Hmm... I have no clue what might be causing that. I changed fonts myself in
an initial-frame-alist setting set in settings.el. I don't manually change
any fonts in init.el. Have you tried asking in #emacs on IRC?

John

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I agree, you don't. I searched for anything that might affect fonts or faces in init.el pretty thoroughly. The folks in #emacs told me to dust off the debugger documentation, which from their perspective seems reasonable. I was hoping I was making a simple error somewhere.

Just for clarity though, my guesses about how to use load-path, autoloads, cus-load, settings and init as shown above are substantially correct? That's the right order and nothing else goes in after-init-hook?

(Thanks again for taking the time to respond)

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emacswatcher [email protected] writes:

I agree, you don't. I searched for anything that might affect fonts or faces
in init.el pretty thoroughly. The folks in #emacs told me to dust off the
debugger documentation, which from their perspective seems reasonable. I was
hoping I was making a simple error somewhere.

Just for clarity though, my guesses about how to use load-path, autoloads,
cus-load, settings and init as shown above are substantially correct? That's
the right order and nothing else goes in after-init-hook?

My init.el loads load-path.el and settings.el. Why are you using a separate
.emacs? Emacs will load ~/.emacs.d/init.el automatically, if it exists (and
if there isn't a ~/.emacs).

John

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...and that made my problem vanish. I'm glad my suspicions were confirmed about the order of operations, even at the cost of revealing a mistake on my part.

Thanks a million.

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