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 13:06:46 -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: <87vflnw2bt.fsf@cs.uga.edu> References: <873c8sdn3g.fsf@cs.uga.edu> <87u117cmlo.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 1078279959 30869 80.91.224.253 (3 Mar 2004 02:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 02:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 03:12:34 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 1AyLs9-00076n-00 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 03:12:33 +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 1AyLpX-0006dQ-Hp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:09:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!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:rzvTBxcsNRcsA/UI9GdRsAlF5X4= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 49 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121437 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:17394 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17394 "D. D. Brierton" writes: ... > Ahhh. I'd misunderstood you. I thought you meant that you were running two > different emacsen on the same box, but rather the problem seems to be with > two identical emacsen on different boxes. Re-reading my original post, I now realize that I was not at all clear about that. I use svn to keep track of some files that are the same across all the machines I use. My .emacs file is one such file. >> 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. > > Yes, I'd agree, although I suppose it depends on what the symlink is to -- > is it something very exotic, like a pointer via a virtual-file-system > directly into your version constrol repository? (Perhaps that's not > possible. Perhaps it is possible and not at all exotic.) No, it points to a regular file in a working copy of a directory in the repository. >> Does anyone know if this feature has been discussed to death already, >> or would it be good to submit a bug report? > > I haven't seen it mentioned before, and I lurk here a lot, and regular > browse the web archive of the developers' list. I'd say it's a bug, but it's kind of a trivial matter, and if it isn't bothering others, I'll just work around it. >>> 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. Something even more simple is the .emacs file below, a regular file on both machines, changable by customize without problem: ;;;; .emacs (load "~/svnfiles/homedir/.emacs") -- --Ed L Cashin PGP public key: http://noserose.net/e/pgp/