From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Nice Emacs Lisp Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:33:08 -0700 Message-ID: <010e01c9a8a8$02fdf660$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <87mybiamwi.fsf@mundaneum.com> <20090318213115.GA6695@reforged><20090318224234.GB6695@reforged> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237482750 28109 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 17:12:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:12:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'emacs help' To: "'Peter Dyballa'" , "'Mike Mattie'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 18:13:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LkLiM-0001ia-J7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:07:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkLh0-0004rs-3v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkKj6-0003w6-L4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkKj2-0003u4-3E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44798 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkKj1-0003tz-Ty for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:60417) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkKj1-0005hS-AB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n2JG3gKJ016651 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:03:43 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt705.oracle.com (acsmt705.oracle.com [141.146.40.83]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n2JG44GN021271; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:04:05 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:33:09 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcmoIm0gOuUqSUpwRAyLABnfrqZZXgAhSIbg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt705.oracle.com [141.146.40.83] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.49C26CF1.0092:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63100 Archived-At: > > elegant, but isn't the custom-file scribbled on by customize ? > > From my memory it is really a data file, though it is elisp. > > > Mostly. Of course I moved the two custom-set-variables and > custom-set-faces sections from my old ~/.emacs file into the > customisations file first before I activated the code. Since > then the *customize* buffers read from and write into my > customisations file. (And from time to time I copy manually > a line from one file to this or that other file. > Doing the same in *customize* would cost too much time.) FWIW - I like (and recommend) using `custom-file' and keeping Customize stuff out of the `init-file'. I load `custom-file' as the very last thing in my init file. (YMMV.)