From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink? Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:09:07 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u117cmlo.fsf@cs.uga.edu> References: <873c8sdn3g.fsf@cs.uga.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078261832 30880 80.91.224.253 (2 Mar 2004 21:10:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:10:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 02 22:10:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AyH9j-0004mY-00 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 22:10:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AyGrV-0003NQ-AV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:51:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:soGifDj1GYDQiUz3KArzy6ippu4= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 75 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121430 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17387 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17387 "D. D. Brierton" writes: > On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:00:51 -0500, 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. > > Put your (two) customizations in (two) separate filesto .emacs. I don't > know which two versions of emacs you use. They are (with formatting addeded) ... GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2002-\03-22 on raven, modified by Debian and GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian Maybe it's some add-on that is on one machine and not the other. I ought to do a little more digging and create a bug report. To me it seems wrong for the default behavior of customize to be like this, replacing a symlinked .emacs file with a modified regular file. Does anyone know if this feature has been discussed to death already, or would it be good to submit a bug report? > But assuming its Xemacs vs. > Emacs, put at the end of your .emacs something like (excuse my probably > crappy and very-unlisp-like lisp): > > (if (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version) > (load "~/.xemacs.customize.el") > (load "~/.emacs.customize.el")) Looks like a good solution for me. > Each separate customize file will need to have a customization for > custom-file in it: > > (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. > [...] > '(custom-file "") > [...] I think it's mildly offensive that the comment says "don't edit this". > Presumably you don't want to keep your customizations in CVS, or do you? I'm using svn, the successor to cvs. It's great. To be honest, I have always tried to avoid customize entirely, since I can get far with an apropos search, reading docs, and putting some lisp in .emacs. So I don't know whether I'd want different customizations on different machines. I already set things up differently in .emacs based on host name. -- --Ed L Cashin PGP public key: http://noserose.net/e/pgp/