Move elnode setting to init.org

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/.emacs.d/init.el b/.emacs.d/init.el
index 5ecadbd..6cb703b 100644
--- a/.emacs.d/init.el
+++ b/.emacs.d/init.el
@@ -910,10 +910,6 @@ from myaethon2.core.decorators import (
 
 ;;;; Unconditional settings
 
-;; Can't be put in an eval-after-load or such because by then it will
-;; be too late.
-(setq elnode-do-init nil)
-
 (add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors "^Can't shift all lines enough")
 
 (eval '(setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message "slash"))
diff --git a/.emacs.d/init.org b/.emacs.d/init.org
index d3e9f9e..aa58d94 100644
--- a/.emacs.d/init.org
+++ b/.emacs.d/init.org
@@ -614,6 +614,29 @@
      (setq message-log-max 1000)
    #+END_SRC
 
+** Don't start =elnode= when Emacs starts
+
+   Elnode is an awesome project and I'm still looking for a moment
+   where I have the inspiration and time to actually do something with
+   it. I started at some point, but then I couldn't get the cookies to
+   work and I switched over to using Common Lisp, only to eventually
+   stop developing the project because there was not chance of it
+   seeing any use in the foreseeable future.
+
+   There is one little annoyance, though, and that is the fact that
+   elnode will start itself up when Emacs starts. I don't want that.
+
+   This bit of code can't be put in an =eval-after-load= or anything
+   like that because by the time it would be evaluated, elnode would
+   already have started.
+
+   *Note:* See my [[Vacuous defvar][note]] on vacuous defvar for this use of =defvar=.
+
+   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+     (defvar elnode-do-init)
+     (setq elnode-do-init nil)
+   #+END_SRC
+
 * Load custom file
 
   I don't really use the Emacs customization interface much, but I