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diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index ef0e750d7dc2a41f1d925dacd27b6354fcdeef3b..53fdbf3939d9d8d3aba73503d46faf1685eb5bdb 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -874,6 +874,10 @@ opening the first frame (e.g. open a connection to an X server).")
     ;; Run the site-start library if it exists.  The point of this file is
     ;; that it is run before .emacs.  There is no point in doing this after
     ;; .emacs; that is useless.
+    ;; Note that user-init-file is nil at this point.  Code that might
+    ;; be loaded from site-run-file and wants to test if -q was given
+    ;; should check init-file-user instead, since that is already set.
+    ;; See cus-edit.el for an example.
     (if site-run-file
        (load site-run-file t t))