From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using the same custom file in two different OSes
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:03:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0hQ3RbuoJeAuoat9eo=yEK73ymXrs8+o7ndHGpSHGr=Vg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A67A23F287DA44CC989BE1173F6160C7@us.oracle.com>
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Mmmm I'm afraid I'm unable to keep my custom file free of my
>> platform-specific stuff. I've just seen this behavior:
>> 1. I remove the `default' and `variable-pitch' lines from my
>> custom file.
>> 2. I exit Emacs, start it again and verify that my custom file doesn't
>> have the lines I removed. Note that this session has loaded my init
>> file, which first loads my custom file and then makes the
>> platform-specific customization (in that order).
>> 3. I do some customization (change the box-width property of the
>> `mode-line' face, for example), and save it (C-x C-s).
>> 4. I reopen my custom file and see that the two lines I removed in #1
>> have been reinserted.
>>
>> Changing the order (first do the platform-specific customization and
>> the load the custom file) doesn't help. The custom file is
>> regenerated (when I save any customization) entirely, including the
>> `default' and `variable-pitch' faces.
>
> Right.
>
> It's because your init file changes the faces but does not save those changes or
> cancel them. Then, when you save changes with C-x C-s, that saves the faces you
> changed.
>
> You want to either (a) do what you do now: redefine the faces after loading your
> `custom-file' each time or (b) just tell Customize that the faces have _not_
> been changed (even though they have), before hitting C-x C-s. That is, just
> tell Customize to ignore your changes.
>
> For that, you can just add those faces to option `customize-customized-ignore'
> (user preferences to ignore in `customize-customized'). For that you will need
> to load library cus-edit+.el.
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/cus-edit%2b.el
>
> If you do not want to do that, then you can use code like this in your init
> file, just after setting the faces the way you want:
>
> (face-spec-set THE-FACE (get THE-FACE 'face-defface-spec) 'reset)
>
> That should work. This should also do the trick, as an alternative:
>
> (put THE-FACE 'saved-face nil)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That did the trick.
So, now I'm able to keep my custom file free of platform-dependent
settings, which are moved to the init file, like this:
;; Set the custom-file
(setq custom-file "whatever")
;; Load the platform-independent customization
(load custom-file)
;; Set the platform-specific customization
(if (display-graphic-p)
(if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
(custom-set-faces <Stuff specific to MS-Windows>)
(custom-set-faces <Stuff specific to Other OSes>)))
;; Reset de state of the faces customized above, so that they
;; don't get written to the custom-file when some customization
;; is saved.
(put 'default 'saved-face nil)
(put 'variable-pitch 'saved-face nil)
Thanks Drew!
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-16 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-13 22:00 Using the same custom file in two different OSes Dani Moncayo
2013-01-13 22:18 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-14 18:46 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-14 19:13 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-14 19:42 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-14 21:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-01-14 23:00 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-15 8:25 ` Didier Verna
2013-01-15 8:42 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-14 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-16 21:03 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.17633.1358371586.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-17 8:43 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-01-17 14:19 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-17 14:38 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-01-17 15:22 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-17 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-17 16:01 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-17 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-17 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-17 16:57 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-17 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-17 18:15 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-17 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15 20:27 ` Dani Moncayo
[not found] ` <mailman.17532.1358281671.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-16 8:58 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-01-16 20:35 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-16 12:59 ` Jason Rumney
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