From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: customize save for future sessions Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:25:56 -0600 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384291814 31180 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2013 21:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:30:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 12 22:30:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VgLXN-0007Tm-92 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:30:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45437 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VgLXM-00063J-Sb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:30:16 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news6 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pb5e2693d4e70df3fcb73f90cc68e61e12bd6e4b9d03458a9.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 X-Received-Bytes: 1866 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202202 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94471 Archived-At: When I try to save any customization (through Specific Option) to .emacs I see: Invalid Read Syntax: "?" Am on w64-7pro and Emacs 23.3.1 Possibly pertinent os evironment settings: C:\mydocu~1>set ... ALTERNATE_EDITOR=C:\emacs\bin\runemacs --debug-init APPDATA=C:\Users\Ec\AppData\Roaming ..... ComSpec=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe EMACS_SERVER_FILE=C:\Users\Ec\AppData\Roaming\.emacs.d\server\se ..... home=c:\users\Ec\Appdata\Roaming HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Users\Ec LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\Ec\AppData\Local ..... Path=C:\Python33\;c:\mingw\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;c:\gnu\bin;C:\Windows\ .... etc. :\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\;c:\adt\adt\sdk\platform-tools PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC .... SystemDrive=C: SystemRoot=C:\Windows ... Emacs itself is installed in c:\emacs, not with w32 programs. Also is there a faq for this group (gnu.emacs.help). I need to (re)learn how to use emacsclientw, installation options, etc. With every upgrade to Emacs and the OS things get clunkier due to my own ignorance of the basics and to the fact that many important things are done and then forgotten once a year or even less often. Thanks, Ed