From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'PJ Weisberg'" <pj@irregularexpressions.net>,
"'Suvayu Ali'" <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: How to specify customized configuration file rather than"~/.emacs" ?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:04:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E9C04748BBED41D5A0BE8B5884C3B1FF@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsNXTk3ncQJkhi2+Qu31PSvxb73jxiwwDOdESq0u1reXJ4_0A@mail.gmail.com>
> > $ emacs -Q -l ~/special-config.el
>
> You'll probably also want to put (setq user-init-file
> "~/special-config.el") in that file, or Emacs will refuse to save
> customizations
That's all well and good, but to me the simplest and long-standard approach is
simply to set option `custom-file' and load it from your ~/.emacs file (early or
late in the file, depending on what you want/need).
Dunno why anyone would let Customize diddle with their ~/.emacs.
The _default_ for Emacs should be for Customize to save customizations to a
reasonable default `custom-file', just like we do for bookmark files and all the
rest. Whoever let Customize mess with ~/.emacs in the first place should long
ago have been sent back to GnuLand for regrooving. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-13 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-13 13:43 How to specify customized configuration file rather than "~/.emacs" ? Z C
2012-09-13 14:03 ` Vineet Naik
2012-09-13 14:12 ` Jambunathan K
2012-09-13 14:38 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-09-13 15:27 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-09-13 16:04 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-09-14 15:29 ` Z C
2012-09-14 16:02 ` How to specify customized configuration file rather than"~/.emacs" ? Drew Adams
2012-09-15 14:05 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-09-14 20:01 ` How to specify customized configuration file rather than "~/.emacs" ? Peter Dyballa
[not found] <mailman.8775.1347543860.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-09-13 14:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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