Variable: term-file-prefix

term-file-prefix is a customizable variable defined in faces.el.gz.

Value

"term/"

Documentation

If non-nil, Emacs startup performs terminal-specific initialization.

It does this by: (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv "TERM")))

You may set this variable to nil in your init file if you do not wish the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.

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Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/faces.el.gz
;;; faces.el --- Lisp faces -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

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;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
;; Keywords: internal
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;;; Commentary:

;;; Code:

(defcustom term-file-prefix "term/"
  "If non-nil, Emacs startup performs terminal-specific initialization.
It does this by: (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv \"TERM\")))

You may set this variable to nil in your init file if you do not wish
the terminal-initialization file to be loaded."
  :type '(choice (const :tag "No terminal-specific initialization" nil)
		 (string :tag "Name of directory with term files"))
  :group 'terminals)