From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customize-option erases .emacs contents! Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:52:24 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114469595 20210 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2005 22:53:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 26 00:53:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQCRY-0005UT-MO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:52:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQCXA-0003C2-AK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:58:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQCWr-00038L-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQCWp-00036T-Lj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQCWp-0002ez-Ft for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DQCVS-0001sx-Ei for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:56:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DQCMc-0004pI-Ce for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:47:38 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:47:38 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:47:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26039 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26039 Phillip Lord wrote: > All of what use to be my .emacs is in "main.el". I also have a small > post-custom.el for the odd thing that has to be done after custom. > I think this is a neater way of doing things anyway. I think an even neater way is to put this at the top of your .emacs file: (setq custom-file "~/emacs.custom") -- Kevin Rodgers