It seems you have edited the "custom-set-*" block. That snippet is generated by emacs when you modify and save the customization options from inside an emacs session. So you shouldn't edit it manually but use emacs to change it. Please see this link for more details - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5052088/what-is-custom-set-variables-and-faces-in-my-emacs HTH On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:10 PM, The Grue < markus.grunwald.ebe@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Why? > > Uhm - excuse me? > Ok, maybe I didn't make this clear: I don't want to loose these settings! > It's part of my fine-tuning of emacs and I consider it broken without these > settings ;) > -- Vineet Naik