From 41424f2ece869e9c17f47c02779c9ce147ff5ce3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cherti <60946298+jamescherti@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 11:11:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add vars to disable loading pre/post early-init/init files

---
 README.md     |  8 ++++++++
 early-init.el | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 init.el       | 11 ++++++++---
 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6709326..f0a8002 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2098,6 +2098,14 @@ These modes are optional and can be added selectively to `~/.emacs.d/post-init.e
          ("/info/attributes\\'" . gitattributes-mode)
          ("/git/attributes\\'" . gitattributes-mode)))
 
+;; Configure built-in sgml-mode to automatically enable
+;; `sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode' in `html-mode' and `mhtml-mode', providing
+;; automatic insertion of matching closing tags.
+(use-package sgml-mode
+  :ensure nil
+  :commands (sgml-mode sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode)
+  :hook ((html-mode mhtml-mode) . sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode))
+
 ;; Support for YAML files.
 ;;
 ;; NOTE: Prefer the tree-sitter-based yaml-ts-mode over yaml-mode when
diff --git a/early-init.el b/early-init.el
index 0fcf5e8..79a98fb 100644
--- a/early-init.el
+++ b/early-init.el
@@ -95,6 +95,18 @@ of the progress or any relevant activities during startup.")
   "Directory beneath minimal-emacs.d files are placed.
 Note that this should end with a directory separator.")
 
+(defvar minimal-emacs-load-pre-early-init t
+  "If non-nil, attempt to load `pre-early-init.el`.")
+
+(defvar minimal-emacs-load-post-early-init t
+  "If non-nil, attempt to load `post-early-init.el`.")
+
+(defvar minimal-emacs-load-pre-init t
+  "If non-nil, attempt to load `pre-init.el`.")
+
+(defvar minimal-emacs-load-post-init t
+  "If non-nil, attempt to load `post-init.el`.")
+
 ;;; Load pre-early-init.el
 
 ;; Prefer loading newer compiled files
@@ -143,7 +155,8 @@ pre-early-init.el, and post-early-init.el.")
       (setq init-file (minimal-emacs--remove-el-file-suffix init-file))
       (load init-file :no-error (not minimal-emacs-debug)))))
 
-(minimal-emacs-load-user-init "pre-early-init.el")
+(when minimal-emacs-load-pre-early-init
+  (minimal-emacs-load-user-init "pre-early-init.el"))
 
 (setq custom-theme-directory
       (expand-file-name "themes/" minimal-emacs-user-directory))
@@ -454,7 +467,9 @@ this stage of initialization."
                                    ("melpa-stable" . 50)))
 
 ;;; Load post-early-init.el
-(minimal-emacs-load-user-init "post-early-init.el")
+
+(when minimal-emacs-load-post-early-init
+  (minimal-emacs-load-user-init "post-early-init.el"))
 
 ;; Local variables:
 ;; byte-compile-warnings: (not obsolete free-vars)
diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 1da9551..5d21b9f 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -22,9 +22,11 @@
 ;;; Code:
 
 ;;; Load pre-init.el
+
 (if (fboundp 'minimal-emacs-load-user-init)
-    (minimal-emacs-load-user-init "pre-init.el")
-  (error "The early-init.el file failed to loaded"))
+    (when minimal-emacs-load-pre-init
+      (minimal-emacs-load-user-init "pre-init.el"))
+  (error "The early-init.el file failed to load"))
 
 ;;; Before package
 
@@ -562,8 +564,11 @@
   (put cmd 'disabled nil))
 
 ;;; Load post init
-(when (fboundp 'minimal-emacs-load-user-init)
+
+(when (and minimal-emacs-load-post-init
+           (fboundp 'minimal-emacs-load-user-init))
   (minimal-emacs-load-user-init "post-init.el"))
+
 (setq minimal-emacs--success t)
 
 ;; Local variables: