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From: Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
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Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:

> Steven L Baur writes:
>> There has been an interface change.  ~/.xemacs and ~/.xemacs-custom have
>> been renamed to ~/.xemacs/init.el and ~/.xemacs/options.el respectively.
>> The presence of the .xemacs directory will not preclude reading `.emacs'
>> as a startup file, `.emacs' will always be a possible startup file.

> I am confused.

> If I have a ~/.emacs and a ~/.xemacs/init.el, in what order will it read 
> them?  

~/.xemacs/init.el will be read first and reading of ~/.emacs will be
suppressed (only the first one found will be executed).

> More specifically, if I have `(set emacs-user-extension-dir "/tmp")' in
> my ~/.emacs, will that cause /tmp/init.el to be loaded later?

No.  (Not right now).  emacs-user-extension-dir by necessity gets set
before the user-init-file is read.

> By the way, I am bowing to the will of the majority.  More specifically, 
> Hrvoje said that he would pummel me if I didn't. :-)

:-)
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