* bug#1246: Bug : 23.0.60; "customize emacs" overwrites "custom-set-variables" in .emacs
@ 2008-10-25 0:30 Bernhard Koenig
2008-10-25 13:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-10 2:09 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Bernhard Koenig @ 2008-10-25 0:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-pretest-bug
I used the "customize emacs" options and made permanent changes
(regarding fonts if I remember correctly). Emacs
changed the .emacs file on disk and modified the
"custom-set-variables". The problem was that all the old
custom-set-variables (like tex-output-view-style and stuff) were
completely overwritten.
Don't know if this is intended but it's quite annoying.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* bug#1246: Bug : 23.0.60; "customize emacs" overwrites "custom-set-variables" in .emacs
2008-10-25 0:30 bug#1246: Bug : 23.0.60; "customize emacs" overwrites "custom-set-variables" in .emacs Bernhard Koenig
@ 2008-10-25 13:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-10 2:09 ` Glenn Morris
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2008-10-25 13:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bernhard Koenig, 1246; +Cc: emacs-pretest-bug
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Bernhard Koenig
<b.a.koenig@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I used the "customize emacs" options and made permanent changes
> (regarding fonts if I remember correctly). Emacs
> changed the .emacs file on disk and modified the
> "custom-set-variables". The problem was that all the old
> custom-set-variables (like tex-output-view-style and stuff) were
> completely overwritten.
>
> Don't know if this is intended but it's quite annoying.
When you choose to make the changes permanent it should write that to
custom-file (which by default is your .emacs). It should however
include all the old values. If it did not then something is wrong.
Can you show us your .emacs? Was there perhaps several
custom-set-variables entry in it?
Also the normal information in the bug report is missing (date you did
a check out from the CVS repositories beeing the most important). Can
you tell us that?
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* bug#1246: Bug : 23.0.60; "customize emacs" overwrites "custom-set-variables" in .emacs
2008-10-25 0:30 bug#1246: Bug : 23.0.60; "customize emacs" overwrites "custom-set-variables" in .emacs Bernhard Koenig
2008-10-25 13:15 ` Lennart Borgman
@ 2011-07-10 2:09 ` Glenn Morris
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2011-07-10 2:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 1246-done
This absolutely isn't supposed to happen. The whole purpose of customize
would be defeated and there would be lots of bug reports.
But since there aren't lots of these reports, I'm afraid the problem
must have been something peculiar to your settings somehow.
(Random guess: maybe you had multiple custom-set-variables sections - as
it says there must be only one.)
Without a reproducible recipe showing us how you got into this state,
I'm afraid there is nothing we can do.
If you have such info, please reply and we can reopen this report.
You can view the whole report at http://debbugs.gnu.org/BUGNUMBER
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2011-07-10 2:09 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2008-10-25 0:30 bug#1246: Bug : 23.0.60; "customize emacs" overwrites "custom-set-variables" in .emacs Bernhard Koenig
2008-10-25 13:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-10 2:09 ` Glenn Morris
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).