2.3 Customizing FreeLisp

2.3.5 Lisp initialization file

In addition to freelisp.ini, you can also use another initialization file, init.lsp, to customize FreeLisp. This file should hold Lisp source code to be evaluated automatically whenever you start FreeLisp up.

There is no init.lsp file supplied by default. You must create the file yourself, using either the FreeLisp editor (see Chapter 4) or a word processing program.

To work correctly, init.lsp must be placed in the directory in which you installed FreeLisp: this is probably c:\freelisp.

When you become more familiar with Common Lisp and start to write your own applications, you will find this facility useful for loading source code by default, amongst other things. While developing an application, you might want to load all your source code automatically -- use init.lsp to do this.


FreeLisp User's Guide - 5 FEB 1996

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