Why do I have to explicitly set to avoid error on save customizations?

Why do I have to explicitly set to avoid error on save customizations?

[Christopher Balz]

Running: Gnu Emacs version 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) 
(i.e., on Win2000)

I figure that I must not be starting up Emacs in the most graceful way
possible, since I must explicitly set the 'user-init-file' variable in
order to be able to "save for future sessions" in the Emacs
Customizations user interface.

Below please find: 
       A) Relevant Code Snippets from .emacs
       B) Entire .emacs file.

Looking forward to your suggestions.  Thank you in advance and Long
Live Emacs.

  - CB


A) ======= Relevant Code Snippets from .emacs:

;; Invocation of Gnu Emacs on Win2K: 
;;    From Windows shortcut icon with these properties on shortcut's
'Properties' menu:
;;        'Target': 
;;           "C:\Program Files\emacs\emacs-21.2\bin\runemacs.exe" -l
~/.emacs
;;         'Start in' (Note: I use Cygwin, see below):
;;           C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/

;; So far, explicitly assigning the 'user-init-file' variable has been
the only way
;; that I have been able to save my customizations from the Emacs
Customization user
;; interface.  If I do not do this, I get the error message 'saving
settings from
;; 'emacs -q' would overwrite customizations'.  I'm sure that there is
something
;; I can do to go about things more smoothly than this.
(setq user-init-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs")
       custom-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs"))


B) =========== Entire .emacs File:

;; This is a web programmer's .emacs file for GNU Emacs 
;; (tested on version 21.2) on Windows 2000/NT.	 
;; It would take minimal or no changes to port it to run on Unix; 
;; the one change definitely needed would be to remove the "cygwin"
;; code, since that is only for putting the BASH shell on Windows.
;; @author: Christopher M. Balz.

;; Invocation of Gnu Emacs on Win2K: 
;;    From Windows shortcut icon with these properties on shortcut's
'Properties' menu:
;;        'Target': 
;;           "C:\Program Files\emacs\emacs-21.2\bin\runemacs.exe" -l
~/.emacs
;;         'Start in' (Note: I use Cygwin, see below):
;;           C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/
;;
;; Add the site directory (used to contain non-core Emacs Lisp
packages) to the Emacs load-path,
;; i.e., the list of directories where Emacs searches for packages
that you require.
;; This must be at the head of your .emacs file.  This code prepends
the site directory to the load path:
;; Standard emacs lisp access (for non-byte-compiled access):
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "C:/Program
Files/emacs/emacs-21.2/site-lisp/"))
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "C:/Program
Files/emacs/emacs-21.2/site/lisp/progmodes/"))
;; System-wide emacs customizations:
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "C:/Program
Files/emacs/site/"))
;; Personal emacs/site:
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/emacs/site/")) 
;; So that Emacs can find the home directory files (desktop, etc.):
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/")) 
;; Specific Packages:
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "C:/Program
Files/emacs/site/eieio-0.16/"))
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "C:/Program
Files/emacs/site/semantic-1.4beta14/"))
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "C:/Program
Files/emacs/site/speedbar-0.14beta3/"))
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "C:/Program
Files/emacs/site/elib-1.0/"))
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "C:/Program
Files/emacs/site/psgml-1.2.5/"))
;;        For Emacs JDE (from http://sunsite.dk/jde/):
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "C:/Program
Files/emacs/site/jde-2.2.8/lisp/"))

;; So far, explicitly assigning the 'user-init-file' variable has been
the only way
;; that I have been able to save my customizations from the Emacs
Customization user
;; interface.  If I do not do this, I get the error message 'saving
settings from
;; 'emacs -q' would overwrite customizations'.  I'm sure that there is
something
;; I can do to go about things more smoothly than this.
(setq user-init-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs")
       custom-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs"))


;; For use of Bash shell via Cygwin on Windows 2000 (or NT), available
from:
;;	     http://www.cygwin.com/
;; (if you do not have Cygwin installed, comment all of this section
out).
	;; This assumes that Cygwin is installed in C:\cygwin (the
	;; default) and that C:\cygwin\bin is not already in your
	;; Windows Path (it generally should not be).
        ;;
	(setq exec-path (cons "C:/cygwin/bin" exec-path))
	(setenv "PATH" (concat "C:\\cygwin\\bin;" (getenv "PATH")))
	;;
	;; NT-emacs assumes a Windows command shell, which you change
	;; here.
	;;
	(setq process-coding-system-alist '(("bash" . undecided-unix)))
	(setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")
	(setq shell-file-name "bash")
	(setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name) 
	(setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name) 
;; End of bash shell use via Cygwin section.

;; This removes unsightly ^M characters that would otherwise
;; appear in the output of java applications.
;;
(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
	  'comint-strip-ctrl-m)

;; Set start-up directory with cygwin nomenclature 
;; (your configuration files _must_ be in this directory):
(setq startup-directory "C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/")

;; generic-x.el is a standard package with Emacs 21.  It contains some
;; very neat little modes, such as a JavaScript mode (but said mode
;; is not yet as good as c-mode for JavaScript, for it does not 
;; recognize /*-style comments.
;; All modes supported by generic-x.el are automatically applied
;; unless overridden below (for example, JavaScript mode is overridden
;; below).
(require 'generic-x)

;; -------- JDE is the Java IDE for Emacs.
(require 'jde)
;; Use no tabs when editing Java for cross-editor indentation
compatibility.
(defun my-jde-indent-setup ()
  (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
  (setq jde-basic-offset 4))
;;
;; Add the above hook to the jde-mode.
(add-hook 'jde-mode-hook 'my-jde-indent-setup)


;; -------- Begin w3m Section (HTML browser) 
(autoload 'w3m "w3m" "Interface for w3m on Emacs." t)
(autoload 'w3m-find-file "w3m" "w3m interface function for local
file." t)
(autoload 'w3m-browse-url "w3m" "Ask a WWW browser to show a URL." t)
(autoload 'w3m-search "w3m-search" "Search QUERY using SEARCH-ENGINE."
t)
(autoload 'w3m-weather "w3m-weather" "Display weather report." t)
(autoload 'w3m-antenna "w3m-antenna" "Report change of WEB sites." t)
;; -------- End w3m Section (HTML browser) 

;; -------- Begin JavaScript editing section. -------- 

;; This is my way of loading c-mode and hooking .js files to it, 
;; not superseded by the JavaScript mode in generic-x.el (see above).
(autoload 'c-mode "cc-mode.el")
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.js$" . c-mode) auto-mode-alist))
;; This is the container for my custom js editing mode  
;; It uses no tabs for cross-editor compatibility.
(defun my-js-indent-setup ()
  (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
  (setq c-basic-offset 4))
;;
;; Add the above hook to the c-mode.
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'my-js-indent-setup)

;; -------- End JavaScript editing section. -------- 


;; -------- Begin XML and SGML Editing Section --------  
;;
;; -> Note: this handles HTML also but 
;; a formal DTD declaration is needed for that.  Instead, I use
;; html-helper-mode, which handles embedded scripts as well.
;; -> From: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~lenst/about_psgml/
;; -> Environment Variable Must be set for dtd feature to work:
;; PSGML needs to know where to find the SGML catalog files. There are
a couple
;;  of ways to accomplish this, as described in the PSGML
documentation. I use the method
;;  that makes use of the environment variable SGML_CATALOG_FILES
because it is
;;  also used by the SGML parser (patience, I come to it in the next
section of this article).
;;  So, now that you have a set of DTDs and a catalog file, create the
afore-mentioned
;; environment variable and set it to include the path to your
xhtml1.soc file, for
;; example d:\DTDs\xhtml1\xhtml1.soc. If you have more that one
catalog file,
;; you can include them all, separating them with a path delimiter
(";" on Windows,
;; ":" on UNIX-based systems).
;; Here is my value: c:\Program
Files\dtds\xhtml1\xhtml1.soc;c:\Program
Files\dtds\hodmacro\hodmacro.soc

(require 'sgml-mode "psgml.el" "Major mode to edit SGML files.")
(autoload 'xml-mode "psgml.el" "Major mode to edit XML." t)
(setq auto-mode-alist 
      (append '(
		("\\.sgml$" . sgml-mode)
		("\\.idd$" . sgml-mode)
		("\\.ide$" . sgml-mode)
		("\\.xml$" . xml-mode)
		("\\.xsl$" . xml-mode)
		("\\.fo$" . xml-mode)
		)
	      auto-mode-alist
	      )
      )

; Auto-activate parsing the DTD when a document is loaded.
; If this isn't enabled, syntax coloring won't take affect until
; you manually invoke "DTD->Parse DTD"
(setq sgml-auto-activate-dtd t)

;;; Set up my "DTD->Insert DTD" menu.

(setq sgml-custom-dtd '
      (
       ( "DITA concept"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE concept SYSTEM \"concept.dtd\">"
)
       ( "DITA task"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE task SYSTEM \"task.dtd\">" )
       ( "DITA reftopic"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE reftopic SYSTEM
\"reftopic.dtd\">" )
       ( "DITA APIdesc"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE APIdesc SYSTEM \"apidesc.dtd\">"
)
       ( "DITA topic"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE topic SYSTEM \"ditabase.dtd\">"
)
       ( "HOD Script"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE HASCRIPT SYSTEM
\"HAScript.dtd\">" )
       ( "XHTML 1.0 Strict"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML
1.0 Strict//EN\" \"xhtml1-strict.dtd\">" )
       ( "XHTML 1.0 Transitional"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML
1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">" )
       ( "XHTML 1.0 Frameset"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML
1.0 Frameset//EN\" \"xhtml1-frameset.dtd\">" )
       ( "HTML 4.01 Transitional"
	 "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">"
)
       ( "HTML 4.01 Strict"
	 "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN\">" )
       ( "HTML 4.01 Frameset"
	 "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN\">" )
       ( "IBMIDDoc"
	 "<!DOCTYPE ibmiddoc PUBLIC \"+//ISBN 0-933186::IBM//DTD
IBMIDDoc//EN\" [\n]>")
       ( "DOCBOOK XML 4.1.2"
	 "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC \"-//OASIS//DTD
DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN\"
\"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.0/docbookx.dtd\" [\n]>")
       )
)

(define-key sgml-mode-map "\C-i" 'sgml-insert-element)
; override default validate command to utilize OpenSP's onsgmls
executable
(setq sgml-validate-command "onsgmls -s %s %s")
; override default xml-mode validate command to utilize OpenSP's
onsgmls
; executable by using a mode-hook, since there appears to be no other
means
; to accomplish it.  
(defun my-psgml-xml-hook ()
  (setq sgml-validate-command "onsgmls -s %s %s")
  (setq sgml-declaration "C:\Program
Files\openjade-1.3.1\pubtext\xml.dcl")
)
(add-hook 'xml-mode-hook 'my-psgml-xml-hook)
            

;; -- End psgml / xml section -------- 


;; --- Begin HTML editing section: 
;; I require html helper mode because the hhm-config.el code seems to 
;; cause an error if I have both autoloaded.
(require 'html-helper-mode "html-helper-mode.el")
(autoload 'html-helper-mode "hhm-config.el")
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.html$" . html-helper-mode)      
auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.asp$" . html-helper-mode)       
auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.phtml$" . html-helper-mode)     
auto-mode-alist))
;; --- End HTML editing section.


;; ----- CSS mode. 
;; This is for the css-mode (will not be necessary in later versions;
it should
;; be in the css-mode code itself):
(require 'apropos)  

;; For css-mode: (from http://synthcode.com/emacs/lang/css-mode.el )
;; Note: I've had crashing in this mode when I use an M-x
indent-region
;;       command.
(autoload 'css-mode "css-mode.el")
 (setq auto-mode-alist	     
      (cons '("\\.css$" . css-mode) auto-mode-alist))
;; ----- End CSS mode.

;; Make sure that .emacs file is edited in lisp mode:
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\.emacs" . lisp-mode)       
auto-mode-alist))

;; Read the diary:
(diary) 

;; Show column number on mode line.
(column-number-mode t)
;; Show time on mode line.
;; (day-and-date)
(display-time)

(add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
(diary 0)

;; Enable syntax coloring.
(global-font-lock-mode t)

(setq-default transient-mark-mode t)

;; Global key maps:
(global-set-key "\C-b" 'browse-url-of-file)
(global-set-key "\e/" 'replace-regexp)
(global-set-key "\C-xtl" 'goto-line)
(global-set-key "\e[" 'enlarge-window)
(global-set-key "\e]" 'shrink-window)
(global-set-key "\e=" 'eval-current-buffer)

;; These two key bindings are for up and down scrolling by a either
single line at a time
;; or by N lines at a time (default is scroll by one single line at a
time).  This is
;; very useful when working with narrow horizontal windows.  ;~)
;; To enter the desired N, hold down \C and type the number and then
hit z or q, all the
;; while holding down \C.
;; From the "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions" book, by Bob Glickstein.
(defun scroll-n-lines-up (&optional n) 
  "Scroll up N lines (1 line by default)."
  (interactive "P")
  (scroll-up (prefix-numeric-value n)))

(defun scroll-n-lines-down (&optional n) 
  "Scroll down N lines (1 line by default)."
  (interactive "P")
  (scroll-down (prefix-numeric-value n)))

(global-set-key "\C-q" 'scroll-n-lines-up)
(global-set-key "\C-z" 'scroll-n-lines-down)


;; These two bindings make it easier to find a mismatched parenthesis:
(global-set-key "\e'" 'forward-sexp)
(global-set-key "\e;" 'backward-sexp)

;;; Bracket/brace/parentheses highlighting:
   ;; The following is the command for Emacs 20.1 and later:
(show-paren-mode 1)
   ;; * Here is some Emacs Lisp that will make the % key show the
matching
   ;; parenthesis, like in vi.	In addition, if the cursor isn't over a
   ;; parenthesis, it simply inserts a % like normal.  (`Parenthesis'
actually
   ;;  includes and character with `open' or `close' syntax, which
usually means
   ;;  "()[]{}".)

      ;; By an unknown contributor

      (global-set-key "%" 'match-paren)

      (defun match-paren (arg)
	"Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis otherwise insert
%."
	(interactive "p")
	(cond ((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
	      ((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
	      (t (self-insert-command (or arg 1)))))



;; The following functions enable on-the-fly switching between the
bash shell and DOS:
(defun set-shell-bash()
  (interactive)
  ;; (setq binary-process-input t)
  (setq shell-file-name "bash")
  (setq shell-command-switch "-c")
  (setq explicit-shell-file-name "bash")
  (setenv "SHELL" explicit-shell-file-name)
  (setq explicit-sh-args '("-login" "-i"))
  (setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")
  (setq mswindows-quote-process-args t)
  )

(defun set-shell-cmdproxy()
  (interactive)
  (setq shell-file-name "cmdproxy")
  (setq explicit-shell-file-name "cmdproxy")
  (setenv "SHELL" explicit-shell-file-name)
  (setq explicit-sh-args nil)
  (setq w32-quote-process-args nil)
  )

(global-set-key "\C-xg" 'set-shell-bash) ;; g for Gnu (\C-xb is used
for buffer switch command).
(global-set-key "\C-xd" 'set-shell-cmdproxy)
;; End shell-switch on-the-fly.


;; Begin move-to-window block:
;; This code is from the O'Reilly "GNU Emacs Extensions" book.
;; The purpose of it is to make a reasonable way to move to the next
OR previous window.
;; Change from C-x o to C-x n, so that we have Next and Previous.  
(global-set-key "\C-xn" 'other-window) 

;; We must make our own function to go to the previous window (but
it's simple):
(defun other-window-backward ()
  "Select the previous window."
  (interactive)
  (other-window -1))
;; Now we can bind to this function:
(global-set-key "\C-xp" 'other-window-backward)
;; End move to window block.

;; This turns on the buffer select list in the minibuffer to make it
easy to
;; edit any buffer in a given window or frame (C-r and C-s move
backwards and forwards, respectively,
;; through the buffer select list).
(require 'iswitchb)
(iswitchb-default-keybindings)

;; old: (setq show-paren-mode t)
;; old: (setq show-paren-style 'parenthesis)

;; Set a high recursion limit for parsing the long java files:
(setq max-specpdl-size 1000)

(put 'upcase-region 'disabled nil)

(put 'downcase-region 'disabled nil)

;; Adjust the colors and fonts to preference:
(set-default-font "Fixedsys")
(set-cursor-color "Deep Pink")
(set-face-foreground 'highlight "blue")
(set-face-background 'highlight "red")
(set-foreground-color "Green")
(set-background-color "Gray10")
(set-face-foreground 'custom-group-tag-face "Yellow")
(set-face-foreground 'custom-variable-tag-face "Magenta")
(set-face-foreground 'custom-state-face "Yellow")
(set-face-foreground 'font-lock-type-face "Goldenrod")
(set-face-foreground 'font-lock-comment-face "OrangeRed")
(set-face-foreground 'font-lock-function-name-face "Turquoise")
(set-face-foreground 'font-lock-keyword-face "Yellow")
(set-face-foreground 'font-lock-string-face "Magenta")
(set-face-foreground 'font-lock-variable-name-face "Coral")
(set-face-foreground 'modeline "yellow")
(set-face-background 'modeline "purple4") 
(set-face-background 'region "MidnightBlue")
(set-face-background 'secondary-selection "dodger blue")
(set-face-foreground 'diary-face "Yellow")
(set-face-background 'holiday-face "Pink")
(set-face-foreground 'holiday-face "Red")
(set-face-foreground 'widget-field-face "Sienna")
(set-face-foreground 'widget-single-line-field-face "Firebrick")
(set-face-foreground 'widget-inactive-face "White")
(set-face-foreground 'widget-documentation-face "Coral")
(set-mouse-color "yellow")

;; The following settings pertain to features that you may not have
installed on your GNU Emacs:
  ;; Begin speedbar section (Values set via Emac's 'Customize'
interface are found at the
  ;; bottom of the file, and hence if there is a 'conflict' they
override these values).
(set-face-foreground 'speedbar-directory-face "Green")
(set-face-background 'speedbar-directory-face "Black")
(set-face-foreground 'speedbar-highlight-face "DarkSlateGray")
(set-face-background 'speedbar-highlight-face "Gold")
(set-face-background 'speedbar-file-face "MidnightBlue")
(set-face-foreground 'speedbar-file-face "Gold")
(set-face-foreground 'speedbar-tag-face "Orange")
;; Set the speedbar pop-up window properties: Note that if the
speedbar height is too
;; great, the windowing-system's title bar for the 
;; speedbar window (at least on Windows2000) will not show completely.
(setq speedbar-frame-parameters '((width . 30)
								  (height . 45)
								  (foreground-color . "green")
								  (background-color . "black")))
  ;; End speedbar section. 

  ;; You may not want the following line if you do not have
paren-matching running:
(set-face-foreground 'show-paren-match-face "Red")
  ;; The following line is only if you have semantic installed:
;; doesn't work for semantic-1.4beta5 (set-face-foreground
'semantic-intangible-face "Gold")
  ;; The following line is only if you have the JDE installed:
(set-face-foreground 'jde-java-font-lock-link-face "Gold")

;;  ---------  This is SGML colorizing with the psgml package, loaded
above.

;;; Set up and enable syntax coloring. 
; Create faces  to assign markup categories.
(make-face 'sgml-doctype-face)
(make-face 'sgml-pi-face)
(make-face 'sgml-comment-face)
(make-face 'sgml-sgml-face)
(make-face 'sgml-start-tag-face)
(make-face 'sgml-end-tag-face)
(make-face 'sgml-entity-face)
(make-face 'sgml-attribute-face)

; Assign attributes to faces. 
(set-face-foreground 'sgml-doctype-face "yellow")
(set-face-foreground 'sgml-sgml-face "cyan1")
(set-face-foreground 'sgml-pi-face "magenta")
(set-face-foreground 'sgml-comment-face "purple")
(set-face-foreground 'sgml-start-tag-face "deep sky blue")
(set-face-foreground 'sgml-end-tag-face "white")
(set-face-foreground 'sgml-entity-face "orange")

; Assign faces to markup categories.
(setq sgml-markup-faces
      '((doctype	. sgml-doctype-face)
	(pi		. sgml-pi-face)
	(comment	. sgml-comment-face)
	(sgml	. sgml-sgml-face)
	(comment	. sgml-comment-face)
	(start-tag	. sgml-start-tag-face)
	(end-tag	. sgml-end-tag-face)
	(entity	. sgml-entity-face)))


; PSGML - enable face settings
(setq sgml-set-face t)

;; ---- End psgml highlighting section.

;; Gnus: using only for mail.
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.statesoftware.com"))
(add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-authinfo)



;; This checks to see if you've set the variable startup-directory and
checks to
;; see if you've set it to a real directory.  If so, it will switch
there.
(let ((working-directory (or startup-directory nil)))
  (if (and (and working-directory)
    (file-directory-p working-directory))
      (cd working-directory)))

;; Make sure that tabs are being used (default behavior, but doesn't
hurt in case something got changed):
;; (setq indent-tabs-mode t)

;; Make sure that no tab characters are used:
(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)

;; Set the variable default-tab-width.
(setq default-tab-width 4)

;; Define an easy way to move up in a dired directory, 
;; To instantly view a file in the web browser (IE or whatever) (this
needs a current directory argument to work better):
;; **NOTE: These bindings must be in a mode-hook, since dired isn't
automatically
;; loaded on startup and so it's keymap is void until you go into
dired.
(add-hook `dired-mode-hook
  `(lambda ()
		 (define-key dired-mode-map "\C-w" 'dired-up-directory)
     (define-key dired-mode-map "\C-b" 'browse-url)))

;; ---------- BEGIN BUG WORKAROUNDS SECTION:
;; This prevents dired from displaying itself in warning-face when the
;; default-tab-width is set to 2. 
  (defadvice dired-readin (around ecm-dired-indent activate)
    "Prevent indentation in dired from using tabs."
    (let ((indent-tabs-mode nil))
      ad-do-it))

;; ---------- END BUG WORKAROUNDS SECTION:

;; This enables saving the current desktop on shutdown.  The ESC-x
desktop-save
;; command must be given once for this to work in perpetuity. 
(desktop-load-default)
(desktop-read)

;;; My additions end here.


;; This was automatically written by the Emacs customization utility:
(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or
cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(browse-url-browser-function (quote
browse-url-default-windows-browser))
 '(browse-url-generic-program "mozilla")
 '(frame-background-mode nil)
 '(jde-auto-parse-max-buffer-size 0)
 '(jde-compile-option-verbose t)
 '(jde-setnu-mode-threshold 200000)
 '(mail-host-address "ChristopherBalz@yahoo.com")
 '(speedbar-show-unknown-files t)
 '(speedbar-use-images t)
 '(user-full-name "Christopher M. Balz")
 '(user-mail-address "ChristopherBalz@yahoo.com"))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste
it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(speedbar-button-face ((t (:background "Pink" :foreground
"Purple"))))
 '(speedbar-selected-face ((((class color) (background dark))
(:background "black" :foreground "red" :underline t))))
 '(speedbar-tag-face ((t (:background "black" :foreground
"Orange")))))

bison indent and font-lock style

[Konstantin Melnikov]

  Hi,

 I'd like to know how to get subj. If it realy exists one? And if no,
what i need read for doing that.

 Thank.

Re: Why do I have to explicitly set to avoid error on save customizations?

[maierh]

ChristopherBalz@yahoo.com (Christopher Balz) writes:

> Running: Gnu Emacs version 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) 
> (i.e., on Win2000)
>
> I figure that I must not be starting up Emacs in the most graceful way
> possible, since I must explicitly set the 'user-init-file' variable in
> order to be able to "save for future sessions" in the Emacs
> Customizations user interface.
>
> Below please find: 
>        A) Relevant Code Snippets from .emacs
>        B) Entire .emacs file.
>
> Looking forward to your suggestions.  Thank you in advance and Long
> Live Emacs.

Try to set the HOME environment variable under

   Current Settings - System - Advanced

Then emacs will find the file ~/.emacs.

Harald

Re: Why do I have to explicitly set to avoid error on save customizations?

[Christopher Balz]

Thank you, that worked just fine.  Actually, I had the HOME
environment variable set, but it was set to a Cygwin path
(/home/Administrator, instead of C:/cygwin/home/Administrator).
 - CB

maierh@myself.com wrote in message news:<upttlj1ii.fsf@myself.com>...
> ChristopherBalz@yahoo.com (Christopher Balz) writes:
> 
> > Running: Gnu Emacs version 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) 
> > (i.e., on Win2000)
> >
> > I figure that I must not be starting up Emacs in the most graceful way
> > possible, since I must explicitly set the 'user-init-file' variable in
> > order to be able to "save for future sessions" in the Emacs
> > Customizations user interface.
> >
> > Below please find: 
> >        A) Relevant Code Snippets from .emacs
> >        B) Entire .emacs file.
> >
> > Looking forward to your suggestions.  Thank you in advance and Long
> > Live Emacs.
> 
> Try to set the HOME environment variable under
> 
>    Current Settings - System - Advanced
> 
> Then emacs will find the file ~/.emacs.
> 
> Harald