From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: always put Customizations in `custom-file', never in `user-init-file' Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:16:23 +0100 Message-ID: <475DD6D7.70803@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197332208 16629 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2007 00:16:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:16:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Emacs-Devel To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 01:16:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J1snq-0002W5-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:16:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1snY-0005pd-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:16:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1snU-0005oh-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:16:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1snT-0005oN-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:16:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1snT-0005oK-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1snS-0004m3-So for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:59327 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J1snQ-00073g-4t; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:16:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071210-0, 2007-12-10), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1J1snQ-00073g-4t. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1J1snQ-00073g-4t ff91a25bc82d28143146f4fae2e72392 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85010 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > We need only two files: `user-init-file' and `custom-file'. The former > should be for users to edit (possibly to load other files). Editing the > latter should be discouraged: normally, users should not need to open > `custom-file' in an editor. Yes, see my reply to Stephen.