warn users to place comments outside custom stuff

warn users to place comments outside custom stuff

[Dan Jacobson]

I comment out some lines in the (custom-set-faces) part of my .emacs
file.

My comments got deleted the next time I entered the wonderful menu
driven customization system.

Therefore, the warning
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
should be revised to
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; Place all comments outside this section or else they will
  ;; likely be deleted!

Re: warn users to place comments outside custom stuff

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I comment out some lines in the (custom-set-faces) part of my .emacs
> file.
> 
> My comments got deleted the next time I entered the wonderful menu
> driven customization system.
> 
> Therefore, the warning
>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> should be revised to
>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>   ;; Place all comments outside this section or else they will
>   ;; likely be deleted!

What part of "don't edit" don't you understand?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: warn users to place comments outside custom stuff

[Alan Mackenzie]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote on Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:17:00 -0600:
> Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> I comment out some lines in the (custom-set-faces) part of my .emacs
>> file.

>> My comments got deleted the next time I entered the wonderful menu
>> driven customization system.

>> Therefore, the warning
>>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
>>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>> should be revised to
>>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
>>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>   ;; Place all comments outside this section or else they will
>>   ;; likely be deleted!

> What part of "don't edit" don't you understand?

Um, the part that (implicitly) says "don't tamper with this, because
you're probably too stupid to understand it, and we don't feel it's worth
wasting our valuable time trying to explain it to a cretin like you".

I have to side with Dan here.  My .emacs file is _MY_ .emacs file, and if
some overbearing fascist system won't let me edit my file, I want to know
why.  I think the "don't edit or cut/paste it!"  badly needs an "or else
..." tacked onto the end of it.

> Kevin Rodgers

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Re: warn users to place comments outside custom stuff

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 12 Aug 2005 12:49:45 +0200, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> I have to side with Dan here.  My .emacs file is _MY_ .emacs file, and if
> some overbearing fascist system won't let me edit my file, I want to know
> why.

There's even a better answer (other than not using customize). You can
put this on your .emacs:

 (setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom.el")
 (load custom-file)

so customize won't touch it.

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Re: warn users to place comments outside custom stuff

[Dan Jacobson]

J>  (setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom.el")
J>  (load custom-file)
J> so customize won't touch it.
But I still would want to put comments in there too.

Anyways, for users who like maintaining and understanding their
configuration files by hand, custom-set-variables is too
overbearing...

Re: warn users to place comments outside custom stuff

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Aug 21 2005, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> J>  (setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom.el")
> J>  (load custom-file)
> J> so customize won't touch it.
> But I still would want to put comments in there too.

Maybe "State -> Add Comment"?

Bye, Reiner.
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