Re: run/load a lisp script before user init file

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 10/7/13 1:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:42:43 +0200
> > From: Jarek Czekalski<address@hidden>
> >
> > W dniu 10/07/2013 06:43 PM, Eli Zaretskii pisze:
> > > Site init file looks like what you want. Read about it in the "Init
> > > File" node of the Emacs User Manual.
> >
> > I read the startup procedure. However it still does not seem a clean
> > approch. You suggest that I should add a line
> >
> > (load "emacspeak-loder")
> >
> > to the site-start, right? But when someone removes emacspeak from
> > system, emacs will stop to load correctly. Not nice.
>
> If that's the problem, you can detect the presence of emacspeak first,
> or wrap the load in ignore-errors or some such.
>
> IOW, this is a problem that is much easier to solve in any number of
> ways.

E.g.

(when (not (load "emacspeak-loader" t))
  (display-warning 'initialization "Emacspeak not loaded"))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA