From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, abraham@dina.kvl.dk,
y@mit.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eddy@opera.no
Subject: Re: customize
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:28:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208131628.g7DGSGH13851@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200208101716.g7AHGdT05929@wijiji.santafe.edu
> BTW. How about changing startup.el such that custom-file is loaded
> (after .emacs) if it has been set and if the file hasn't been loaded yet
> (such that users only need to put (setq custom-file "~/.custom") in
> their .emacs file) ?
>
> I see nothing wrong with that. Want to do it?
I use the patch below. If there's no objection, I'll install it.
We can then change the manual's example to just be
(setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom")
-- Stefan
--- startup.el 4 Aug 2002 16:18:18 -0000 1.303
+++ startup.el 13 Aug 2002 16:25:37 -0000
@@ -932,6 +935,12 @@
(sit-for 1))
(setq user-init-file source))))
+ (when (and (stringp custom-file)
+ (not (assoc custom-file load-history)))
+ ;; If the .emacs file has set `custom-file' but hasn't
+ ;; loaded the file yet, let's load it.
+ (load custom-file t t))
+
(or inhibit-default-init
(let ((inhibit-startup-message nil))
;; Users are supposed to be told their rights.
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