From: michael@mail.endbracket.net (Michael Wardle)
Subject: customize -> save for future disrespects symlinks
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 15:58:12 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050507055812.E60723698E@mail.endbracket.net> (raw)
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In GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
of 2005-03-18 on trouble, modified by Debian
configured using `configure '--build=i386-linux' '--host=i386-linux' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--with-x=no' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'build_alias=i386-linux' 'host_alias=i386-linux''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_AU.utf8
locale-coding-system: utf-8
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:
My Emacs initialization file $HOME/.emacs is a symbolic link to
$HOME/etc/emacs. Basic operations on this file -- such as opening,
writing, and (I think) modifiying the file using the version control
mode (vc-mode) will dereference the symlink, make changes to the
symlink's destination, and leave the symlink in place.
When I did:
describe-variable sh-basic-offset
4=8
state save for future sessions
This added a custom-set-variables expression to the end of my
$HOME/.emacs file, but stripped the symlink such that $HOME/.emacs
no longer pointed to $HOME/etc/emacs.
Recent messages:
Creating customization buffer...
Loading wid-browse...done
Creating customization buttons...
Creating customization items...
Creating customization items ...done
Creating customization setup...
Creating customization buffer...done
widget-before-change: Text is read-only: "Change should be restricted to a single field"
Wrote /home/michael/.emacs
Loading emacsbug...done
next reply other threads:[~2005-05-07 5:58 UTC|newest]
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2005-05-07 5:58 Michael Wardle [this message]
2005-05-07 18:36 ` customize -> save for future disrespects symlinks Richard Stallman
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