From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gottlieb@nyu.edu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: session.* files (was: In defense of Customize) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:38 -0500 Message-ID: <874n56bbqh.fsf_-_@nyu.edu> References: <3cec217d-8adb-4e6c-b239-eff0c8b520c9@googlegroups.com> <5581e666-3500-4a30-abb2-6454e2398a01@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389727964 2935 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2014 19:32:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:32:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 14 20:32:51 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W39jF-0007dY-Jb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:32:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W39jF-0004kI-3f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55623) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W39iz-0004k2-84 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W39is-0005ee-6s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.cims.nyu.edu ([128.122.49.96]:43306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W39is-0005eK-3Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:26 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx2.cims.nyu.edu (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0EJWOxQ014513 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from newlap-wireless.localdomain (ool-182df3df.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.243.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0EJWN40014510 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by newlap-wireless.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 19BD0AAEF6; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <5581e666-3500-4a30-abb2-6454e2398a01@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:37:34 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.1 (mx2.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.96]); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:32:24 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at mx2 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 128.122.49.96 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 128.122.49.96 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95394 Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 14 2014, Drew Adams wrote: > No, it is Emacs that does that, by not requiring (or even > encouraging) the use of `custom-file', and by telling Customize to > put code in your init file by default. That is a not-so-wise design > decision about how Emacs uses Customize. It is not the fault of > Customize if Emacs tells it to write to your init file. Thank you Drew for this advice. I looked into custom-file and now my .emacs.d/init.el is not changed by emacs and is considerably smaller. I then tried to clean-up .emacs.d by having all the zero-length session.* files put somewhere else. I looked for session in the manual but all I found was references to desktop-save-mode, which I am not using. How can I have all the session.* files written to a different directory, say ~/.emacs.d/session-files > I hardly think that Per Abrahamsen is a wimp, wrt Lisp or Emacs, > at least. http://www.emacswiki.org/PerAbrahamsen +1 thanks in advance, allan