[COMMIT] Update man page for init file, one nroff format error

Aidan Kehoe kehoea at parhasard.net
Tue Oct 2 15:52:03 EDT 2007


Thank you Shyamal, and I apologise for the glacial delay. (I said the same
thing when I committed your previous patch a few minutes ago, but that
bounced; hopefully this address won’t.)

APPROVE COMMIT

NOTE: This patch has been committed.

etc/ChangeLog addition:

2004-12-03  Shyamal Prasad  <shyamal at member.fsf.org>

	* xemacs.1: Now describe $HOME/.xemacs/init.el as the
        preferred init file. Fixed excessive space insertion 
        in the description of the '-vanilla' option


XEmacs Trunk source patch:
Diff command:   cvs -q diff -Nu
Files affected: etc/xemacs.1
===================================================================
RCS

Index: etc/xemacs.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/etc/xemacs.1,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -u -r1.13 xemacs.1
--- etc/xemacs.1	2001/04/12 18:20:52	1.13
+++ etc/xemacs.1	2007/10/02 19:48:03
@@ -147,12 +147,7 @@
 .TP
 .B \-vanilla
 Load no extra files at startup.  Equivalent to the combination of
-.B \-q
-,
-.B \-no-site-file
-, and
-.B \-no-early-packages
-\.
+.BR \-q ", " \-no-site-file ", and " \-no-early-packages .
 .TP
 .BI \-u " user, " \-user " user"
 Load
@@ -628,7 +623,8 @@
 META-left	Make a rectangular selection.
 .SH FILES
 Lisp code is read at startup from the user's init file,
-\fB$HOME/.emacs\fP.
+\fB$HOME/.xemacs/init.el\fP. If this file does not exist then
+\fB$HOME/.emacs\fP will be read if it is present.
 
 /usr/local/info - files for the Info documentation browser
 (a subsystem of

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