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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.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-13 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E17SKgH-00005W-00@whorl.intern.opera.no>
     [not found] ` <200207111201.g6BC1OM16938@aztec.santafe.edu>
     [not found]   ` <E17SgpB-0003rO-00@whorl.intern.opera.no>
2002-07-14 15:22     ` customize Richard Stallman
2002-07-15  9:18       ` customize Edward Welbourne
2002-07-15 14:08         ` customize Stefan Monnier
2002-07-15 15:36           ` customize Edward Welbourne
2002-07-16 13:28         ` customize Richard Stallman
     [not found]     ` <15680.26449.937153.817907@localhost.localdomain>
2002-07-27 18:53       ` customize Richard Stallman
2002-07-29 11:17         ` customize Edward Welbourne
2002-07-29 12:49           ` customize Kai Großjohann
2002-07-29 13:50             ` customize Edward Welbourne
2002-07-29 15:22               ` customize chad
2002-08-05 17:47                 ` customize Per Abrahamsen
2002-08-06 16:53                   ` customize chad
2002-08-09  6:52                   ` customize Stefan Monnier
2002-08-09  8:32                     ` customize Edward Welbourne
2002-08-10 12:30                       ` customize Stefan Monnier
2002-08-12  8:00                         ` customize, futility of byte-compiling Edward Welbourne
2002-08-12 10:01                           ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-08-12 16:14                           ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-10 17:16                     ` customize Richard Stallman
2002-08-13 16:28                       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-08-14  5:15                         ` customize Richard Stallman
2002-08-14 21:51                           ` customize Stefan Monnier
2002-07-29 16:15               ` customize Per Abrahamsen
2002-07-29 18:15                 ` customize Edward Welbourne
2002-07-29 19:42                   ` customize Kai Großjohann
2002-07-30  8:32                     ` customize Edward Welbourne
2002-07-30 11:32                       ` customize Robert J. Chassell
2002-07-30  5:16                   ` customize Eli Zaretskii
2002-07-30  5:14               ` customize Eli Zaretskii
2002-07-30  1:00           ` customize Richard Stallman
2002-08-03  0:46             ` customize Jeff Dwork
2002-08-09  7:33           ` customize Stefan Monnier

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