>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "jpw" == John Paul Wallington <jpw(a)shootybangbang.com>
writes:
jpw> lisp/custom.el is dumped, so (require 'custom) should be a
jpw> no-op
Stephen> Correct. You can't require the personal custom.el (without using the
Stephen> explicit path argument, and it will fail because custom.el normally
Stephen> does not do (and should not do) a provide).
jpw> (infact it shadows ~/.xemacs/custom.el; if ~/.xemacs/
jpw> shouldn't be in `load-path' then whatever abritrary thing
jpw> puts it there may stick it ahead of lisp/)
Stephen> I'm not sure about this. Mike?
Michael> John is right: ~/.xemacs isn't normally in load-path, and isn't
Michael> supposed to be. Neal needs to figure out where that comes from.
Yes, ~/.xemacs is on my load-path. It seemed to me that if I was
already putting emacs init files there, why not put my other elisp
files there also?
In my opinion, we should migrate towards names that don't clash, if at
all possible.