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>>>>> On Tue, 06 Jul 2021, akater wrote: |
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> Info node “The Emacs Initialization File” mentions |
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> - init.el which is described in enough detail |
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> - default.el which is found via “the standard search path for libraries” |
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> — what would that be? |
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> - site-start.el instead of which Gentoo has site-gentoo.el (I guess) — |
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> but when is it loaded and how does Emacs know to load site-gentoo.el? |
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> and why isn't it compiled? |
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> - early-init.el, “loaded before the package system and GUI is |
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> initialized” — is it loaded before or after site-gentoo? |
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They're run in the order 1. early-init.el, 2. site-start.el, 3. init.el |
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(or equivalently ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.el), 4. default.el. |
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Gentoo has only site-start.el but no default.el, so the user can |
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override the site configuration in their private init file. |
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One difference to the upstream default is that we place site-start.el |
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in /etc/emacs (rather than /usr/share/emacs) because it is a |
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configuration file. Typically, site-start.el will then load |
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site-gentoo.el which contains initialization for the installed elisp |
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packages. |
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> And does Gentoo load anything else, by chance? |
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I guess /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el qualifies for that, it |
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adds all package dirs to the load-path. |
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Ulrich |
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