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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1995-03-25 18:07:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1995-03-25 18:07:05 +0000 |
| commit | 35b12ec0fb20bb64dd6434f6b17af34e03783209 (patch) | |
| tree | af4248a05151949ab58fa8f78e9787cd63dcad78 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 6507ffb1a3cf614524126de121c8b53e008397e6 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-35b12ec0fb20bb64dd6434f6b17af34e03783209.tar.gz | |
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@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ rather than `defvar', as used by `./lisp/paths.el'. For example, is how you would override the default value of the variable news-inews-program (which is "/usr/local/inews"). +Before you override a variable this way, *look at the value* that the +variable gets by default! Make sure you know what kind of value the +variable should have. If you don't pay attention to what you are +doing, you'll make a mistake. + Note that, on some systems, the code you place in site-init.el must not use expand-file-name or any other function which may look something up in the system's password and user information database. |