From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: always put Customizations in `custom-file', never in `user-init-file' Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:12:39 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197400401 26209 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2007 19:13:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 20:13:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J2AXk-0007Iw-Lk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:13:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2AXS-0004SO-N8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:13:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2AXM-0004Mg-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:13:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2AXK-0004ID-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2AXK-0004Hi-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:12:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J2AXG-00055O-6o; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:12:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lBBJCfZg007664; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:12:41 -0700 Original-Received: from rcsmt251.oracle.com (rcsmt251.oracle.com [148.87.90.196]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id lBBHkTBc026256; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:12:37 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-73-94.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3433183811197400355; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:12:35 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85062 Archived-At: > Currently, if a user doesn't have an init file, then s?he can > use Customize but s?he cannot save Customize customizations. > > If that's true, it is a bug. Can you provide a precise test case? > I think Customize will create the .emacs file if there is none. My bad. I was thinking that it had the same behavior as for emacs -Q. With emacs -Q, you cannot save customizations.