Re: Correct way of overriding custom-set-faces after the color-theme is loaded

[Vineet Naik <naikvin@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Philipp Haselwarter
<philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de> wrote:
> my bad, got confused with my mail accounts.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 03 2012 09:58 (@1328259509), Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
>
>> two solutions come to my mind:
>>
>> 1) set the face attributes outside of customize, that way they won't be
>>    affected by customize.
>> #+begin_src elisp
>>  (set-face-background 'flymake-errline "DarkRed")
>> #+end_src
>>
>> 2) put custom stuff into a separate file and load that at some point of
>>    your .emacs
>> #+begin_src elisp
>>  (load
>>   (setq custom-file
>>         (expand-file-name "custom.el" user-emacs-directory))
>>   'noerror)
>> #+end_src
>
> Clarification: Do one /or/ the other :) If you choose option two, make
> sure to create the file you set as `custom-file' (C-h v custom-file RET)
> and move all the custom-* stuff from your .emacs into that file. Also,
> use an absolute path-name. If things don't work as expected, remove the
> 'noerror and start emacs as "emacs --debug-init".
>
> --
> Philipp Haselwarter
>
>

Oh! got it now. Your explanantion also helped me refactor my .emacs file :)

Thank you for all the help.

-- 
Vineet Naik