From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: newer versions of emacs file open
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:49:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878x42cx5d.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ir38s92o.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> "admin@mmri.us" <admin@mmri.us> writes:
>
>> I am using emacs for as long as I can remember about 10+ years.
>> There must be something I dont understand, because it could NEVER save
>> settings in $HOME/.emacs
>> Everytime I reinstall the servers everyone needs to fight their way to get
>> their old settings working again.
>> This happened from RH5-FC7
>> I can save settings all I want, but a new emacs installation ignores the old
>> settings.
>> For example I have a lot of syntax highlighting and custom debuggers etc etc
>> which does not get saved.
>> Whenever I start a new installed version, pop goes the weasel.
>
> That sounds very odd. I've been using emacs since version 19 and my .emacs
> has evolved steadily through using versions 19, 20, 21 and now 22. There
> have only been two issues I've come across -
Is there something peculiar about the Emacs included with RedHat? Does
it set up using (custom-file) automatically? My question to OP would be
"what else happened to your users' files?" The only places Customize
has ever saved anything for me is in .emacs or (custom-file), which I
started using simply because it's nicer to look at my .emacs with the
Custom settings elsewhere.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-10 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-05 23:52 newer versions of emacs file open admin
2007-12-06 0:05 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-06 0:11 ` admin
2007-12-06 0:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.4620.1196899884.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-06 14:41 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-12-06 19:36 ` admin
2007-12-06 19:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.4661.1196969795.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-06 21:07 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-12-06 21:58 ` admin
[not found] ` <mailman.4671.1196978340.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-09 5:58 ` Tim X
2007-12-10 16:49 ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
2007-12-10 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <mailman.4616.1196898771.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-06 0:15 ` David Kastrup
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