Re: Something smelly here. [.emacs-custom file]

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Apr 23 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:

>> reader@newsguy.com wrote:
[...]
>>  > Whenever I close gnus or send a news post something like this
>>  > gets written to .emacs-custom:

>>  >        (custom-set-variables
>>  >         ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or 
>> cut/paste it!
>>  >         ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>  >         '(canlock-password "3931d41841769fd6053e719084096803d2381412"))
>>  >        (custom-set-faces
>>  >         ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or 
>> cut/paste it!
>>  >         ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>  >      )
>>  >      From: reader@newsguy.com
>>  >      X-Draft-From: ("rec.woodworking" "")
>>  >
>>  > The first part looks sort of normal although I have no idea what a
>>  > `canlock-password' is all about, but the partial mail header is just
>>  > wrong.
[...]
> Not really.  Finding out what it is and that it can be turned off is
> good of course, but why is it getting written to .emacs-custom in a
> way that breaks init?

Looking at `message-canlock-password' I can hardly believe that an
error in message.el is responsible for that:

,----
| (defun message-canlock-password ()
|   "The password used by message for cancel locks.
| This is the value of `canlock-password', if that option is non-nil.
| Otherwise, generate and save a value for `canlock-password' first."
|   (unless canlock-password
|     (customize-save-variable 'canlock-password (message-canlock-generate))
|     (setq canlock-password-for-verify canlock-password))
|   canlock-password)
`----

Can you reproduce it?  Maybe it's best to submit a bug report via `M-x
gnus-bug RET'.  I suspect something fishy in your setup.

Maybe you can also edebug the functions `customize-save-variable'
and/or `custom-save-all' to see what's happening.

Bye, Reiner.
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