From: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu>
Subject: Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink?
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:59:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87llmid9u8.fsf@cs.uga.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4044D7F8.1000900@yahoo.com
Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> 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")
Thanks much! I think that should be the default, though.
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--Ed L Cashin PGP public key: http://noserose.net/e/pgp/
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 2:00 customize messing up .emacs symlink? Ed L Cashin
2004-03-02 4:03 ` D. D. Brierton
2004-03-02 15:09 ` Ed L Cashin
2004-03-02 15:36 ` D. D. Brierton
2004-03-02 18:06 ` Ed L Cashin
2004-03-02 16:24 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-03-03 0:55 ` Ed L Cashin
2004-03-03 1:02 ` Jesper Harder
2004-03-02 18:52 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-03-03 0:59 ` Ed L Cashin [this message]
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