From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:23:34 +0100 Message-ID: <00b601c50d34$b8187c00$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <004a01c50ce6$4a5ce320$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107795423 16129 80.91.229.6 (7 Feb 2005 16:57:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 07 17:56:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CyCC0-0005zX-00 for ; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:56:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyCQA-0006OD-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyCJ2-0002zf-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:04:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyCIy-0002xS-CR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:04:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyCIx-0002w2-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:04:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.115] (helo=av1-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CyC3K-0001ew-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:47:58 -0500 Original-Received: by av1-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 6FD6C37E4B; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:47:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.183]) by av1-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9AE37E46; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:47:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t5o58p186.telia.com [195.67.196.186]) by smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 67A7B37E50; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:47:55 +0100 (CET) Original-To: , X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33024 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33024 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert J. Chassell" > More confusion: I just discovered another bug. > > I started an instance of Emacs with `emacs -Q' with a different user, > one that lacked an existing initialization file. When I set an option > with `M-x customize-option RET baud-rate RET' a new .emacs file was > created, as expected. However, I also received a message that said > > Saving settings from "emacs -q" would overwrite existing customizations > > But since I had no existing customization, this message was wrong! It is worse than that - since .emacs was not run Custom can not really know where to save and should just say so. Or, do you mean that Custom did overwrite your .emacs?