From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: 21959@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21959: [25.1.50.1] No way to save customization from emacs -Q
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:53:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <564EED96.9050905@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564EE23F.5090907@easy-emacs.de>
On 20.11.2015 10:05, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> On 20.11.2015 09:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:24:23 +0100
>>> From: Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
>>> CC: 21959@debbugs.gnu.org
>>>
>>>> If Emacs was invoked with the `-q' or `--no-init-file' options
>>>> (*note Initial Options::), it will not let you save your
>>>> customizations
>>>> in your initialization file. This is because saving
>>>> customizations
>>>> from such a session would wipe out all the other customizations
>>>> you
>>>> might have on your initialization file.
>>>>
>>> Hmm, maybe not link saving and wiping out?
>>> What is the rational for theses connection?
>> AFAIU, Customize cannot _update_ your settings (which might include
>> customizations of more than one feature) without _loading_ them from
>> your ~/.emacs first. All it can do is to write out the few (usually,
>> just one) customizations you did in the "emacs -Q" session, replacing
>> whatever was there before. This effectively "wipes out" what you had
>> there.
>
Emacs was started -Q, but init-file and custom-file loaded manually
afterwards.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-20 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 12:27 bug#21959: [25.1.50.1] No way to save customization from emacs -Q Andreas Röhler
2015-11-19 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-20 7:24 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-20 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-20 9:05 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-20 9:53 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2015-11-20 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-20 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-20 14:43 ` Random832
2015-11-20 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-08 7:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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