Re: .emacs (load {user-init-file, custom-file} causes duplicate load of both

[David Kastrup]

Larry Evans <cppljevans@suddenlink.net> writes:

> My ~/.emacs file contains (amoung other things):
>
> ---{~/.emacs---
> (setq user-init-file
>       (expand-file-name "init.el"
>                       (expand-file-name ".emacs.d" "~")))
> (setq custom-file
>       (expand-file-name "custom.el"
>                       (expand-file-name ".xemacs" "~")))
> (load-file user-init-file)
> (load-file custom-file)
> ---}~/.emacs---
>
> When started with this, the *messages* buffer contains:
>
> ---{*messages---
> Loading /home/evansl/.emacs.d/init.el (source)...
> Loading /home/evansl/.recentf...done
> Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed)
> Loading /home/evansl/.emacs.d/init.el (source)...done
> Loading /home/evansl/.xemacs/custom.el (source)...
> Loading desktop...done
> Loading /home/evansl/.xemacs/custom.el (source)...done
> ---}*messages---
>
> Why are both user-init-file and custom-file both loaded twice?

What makes you think they are loaded twice?  I see one message line when
the load begins, and one when it ends (the one with ...done).  They are
not compressed into a single line because other messages intervene.

-- 
David Kastrup