From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Customize custom-file is not useful as it works now Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 02:28:36 +0100 Message-ID: <075301c4d9a0$9ef2bf00$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102123841 19273 80.91.229.6 (4 Dec 2004 01:30:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 04 02:30:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CaOkv-0002hG-00 for ; Sat, 04 Dec 2004 02:30:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CaOuY-0002ca-Gr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:40:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CaOuQ-0002cN-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CaOuP-0002br-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:40:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CaOuP-0002bh-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:40:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.107] (helo=av2-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CaOkJ-00089C-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: by av2-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id A0CBA37E98; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 02:29:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp1-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp1-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.178]) by av2-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935D137E64 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 02:29:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t3o58p135.telia.com [195.252.56.135]) by smtp1-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id DBD2938003 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 02:29:57 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Emacs Devel" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30655 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30655 If you use customize-variable to change custom-file the value of custom-file will be stored in custom-file. This is of course not useful. What is needed is an entry in .emacs like (setq custom-file ".custom"). This could as far as I understand be written in :set in the defcustom for custom-file. I have written functions is setup-helper.el that I believe could handle this rather easily. Another thing that ought to be done is moving the entry (custom-set-variables ...) and dito faces to the new custom-file. Maybe this should be done before release? A reason for doing this is maybe that there seem to be some changes that have to be made to the (custom-set-variables ...) entry between the current Emacs and the new one. - Lennart