How to set up a personal INIT file

[masinter]

The idea behind "simple-init" was to use it to put in "how we're recommending medley" using MEDLEYDIR to drive all of the other directory settings, and put in some configuration options for developers.

And then setting up "User greet" files that you would put in your home directory. Medley gets confused when it sees file names with an initial . like .emacs so we stuck with setting user greet files.

I was thinking of changing the default configuration to have two execs (one CML and one Interlisp) but got voted down.

We've been struggling to define "the way" that Medley should be used in a modern environment --
https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/discussions/categories/configurations-and-releases

and perhaps the site/user initialization distinction makes less sense than it did when it was developed.

That said, I'd suggest making a file INIT in your HOME (or LOGINDIR) directory (those being the environment variables it looks for) and put your own initialization there.

How I work on files these days is to LOAD(filename PROP) , edit the functions or define new ones and use the file package:
but perhaps we should reconfigure things so the Primer would be more accurate.