From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink?
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:52:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4044D7F8.1000900@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 873c8sdn3g.fsf@cs.uga.edu
Ed L Cashin wrote:
> Hi. I have a .emacs file under version control and symlinked into my
> home directory. Every once in a while, emacs replaces my symlink and
> creates a regular file.
>
> Just now I sent some usenet news and saw a message flash by:
>
> Wrote /home/ecashin/.emacs
> Sending news via news.gmane.org using nntp...
> Opening nnimap server on 127.0.0.1...
>
> The difference between the old .emacs and the impostor is shown
> below. It leads me to suspect that the customize code of the two
> emacs versions I use are competing.
>
> I wish they would leave .emacs alone, since I edit it myself and like
> the symlink.
(setq custom-file "~/emacs.custom")
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 2:00 customize messing up .emacs symlink? Ed L Cashin
2004-03-02 4:03 ` D. D. Brierton
2004-03-02 15:09 ` Ed L Cashin
2004-03-02 15:36 ` D. D. Brierton
2004-03-02 18:06 ` Ed L Cashin
2004-03-02 16:24 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-03-03 0:55 ` Ed L Cashin
2004-03-03 1:02 ` Jesper Harder
2004-03-02 18:52 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-03-03 0:59 ` Ed L Cashin
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