From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink? Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:52:40 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4044D7F8.1000900@yahoo.com> References: <873c8sdn3g.fsf@cs.uga.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078284622 5705 80.91.224.253 (3 Mar 2004 03:30:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 03:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 04:30:16 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 1AyN5M-0001uL-00 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 04:30:16 +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 1AyN5B-00034N-M6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 22:30:05 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1078253557 59639888 I 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121438 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:17395 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17395 Ed L Cashin wrote: > Hi. I have a .emacs file under version control and symlinked into my > home directory. Every once in a while, emacs replaces my symlink and > creates a regular file. > > Just now I sent some usenet news and saw a message flash by: > > Wrote /home/ecashin/.emacs > Sending news via news.gmane.org using nntp... > Opening nnimap server on 127.0.0.1... > > The difference between the old .emacs and the impostor is shown > below. It leads me to suspect that the customize code of the two > emacs versions I use are competing. > > I wish they would leave .emacs alone, since I edit it myself and like > the symlink. (setq custom-file "~/emacs.custom") -- Kevin Rodgers