From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file Date: 07 Nov 2003 15:28:03 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068216512 23931 80.91.224.253 (7 Nov 2003 14:48:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 15:48:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AI7uW-0002GI-01 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:48:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AI7tr-0005Ns-2O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:47:47 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p3ee20c8d.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p3ee20c8d.dip.t-dialin.net (62.226.12.141) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1068215283 47126142 62.226.12.141 (16 [198409]) X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117960 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13899 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13899 Adam Hardy writes: > On 11/07/2003 12:27 PM Gareth Rees wrote: > > Here's my cool tip: > > Delete your .emacs! > > This means that you can go to a new machine, run Emacs on it, and it > > works just the same as on your old machine! No more confusion over > > non-default keybindings, unusual settings for variables, bizarre mode > > hooks, etc. And when you find a problem you know it's really to do with > > Emacs and not with some "cool" trick you copied out of someone else's > > .emacs without understanding it. > > Can you provide some lisp to put in my .emacs to do that? ;) (condition-case error (delete-file user-init-file) (error (message "While trying to delete .emacs:%s" error-message-string error))) -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum