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authorKarl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>1995-05-24 20:50:54 +0000
committerKarl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>1995-05-24 20:50:54 +0000
commit4b8ecf98f72bb536320f18213adb1cb3d6345d90 (patch)
tree4898e3d04ce4446cb9d733995ede72b37fc00c0b /INSTALL
parentf1e3f4a4e67b64ec4c70a00d38a10248f742f3f3 (diff)
downloademacs-4b8ecf98f72bb536320f18213adb1cb3d6345d90.tar.gz
Clarify use of site-init.el.
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@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ the section called "CONFIGURATION BY HAND" below if you want to do the
configuration yourself.
4) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right
-for your system, edit the file `./lisp/site-init.el' containing Emacs
-Lisp code to override them; you probably don't want to edit paths.el
+for your system, set up the file `./lisp/site-init.el' with Emacs
+Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el
itself. YOU MUST USE THE LISP FUNCTION `setq' TO ASSIGN VALUES,
rather than `defvar', as used by `./lisp/paths.el'. For example,