Re: [angeli@caeruleus.net: custom-set-variables overwritten bysafe-local-variables]

[Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>]

* Stuart D. Herring (2006-04-29) writes:

> Well, here's the problem -- the (todo-show) invokes the local-variables
> warning, before the `custom-set-variables' has taken place.  This means
> that A) the safe-locals setting hasn't taken place yet, so the warning
> will always occur, and B) if the .emacs is modified by Custom (via the
> local-variables warning), the fill-column hasn't been set yet and will be
> forgotten.

Oh, that's ugly.

> Simple workaround is to put (todo-show) after the `custom-set-variables'. 
> Better yet, replace with (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'todo-show); .emacs
> isn't really supposed to be doing anything user-visible (like opening
> buffers), but it can arrange for it to happen later.

Thanks for the info.  I informed the original reporter about it.

> I don't know that there's any way to "fix" this, except maybe to have
> Custom put its forms at the top of the .emacs.  But that might cause other
> problems...

Possibly.  For example the first line in my .emacs file is
(setq debug-on-error t)
and should stay like this. (c:

-- 
Ralf