[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink?
From: |
D. D. Brierton |
Subject: |
Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink? |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:36:15 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) |
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:09:07 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> They are (with formatting addeded) ...
>
> GNU Emacs 21.2.1
> (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> of 2002-\03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
>
> and
>
> GNU Emacs 21.2.1
> (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
>
> Maybe it's some add-on that is on one machine and not the other. I
> ought to do a little more digging and create a bug report.
Ahhh. I'd misunderstood you. I thought you meant that you were running two
different emacsen on the same box, but rather the problem seems to be with
two identical emacsen on different boxes.
> To me it seems wrong for the default behavior of customize to be like
> this, replacing a symlinked .emacs file with a modified regular file.
Yes, I'd agree, although I suppose it depends on what the symlink is to --
is it something very exotic, like a pointer via a virtual-file-system
directly into your version constrol repository? (Perhaps that's not
possible. Perhaps it is possible and not at all exotic.)
> Does anyone know if this feature has been discussed to death already,
> or would it be good to submit a bug report?
I haven't seen it mentioned before, and I lurk here a lot, and regular
browse the web archive of the developers' list.
>> But assuming its Xemacs vs.
>> Emacs, put at the end of your .emacs something like (excuse my probably
>> crappy and very-unlisp-like lisp):
>>
>> (if (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version)
>> (load "~/.xemacs.customize.el")
>> (load "~/.emacs.customize.el"))
>
> Looks like a good solution for me.
>
>> Each separate customize file will need to have a customization for
>> custom-file in it:
>>
>> (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.
>> [...]
>> '(custom-file "<thisfilename>")
>> [...]
>
> I think it's mildly offensive that the comment says "don't edit this".
Yes -- I deliberately left that part in! :-)
>> Presumably you don't want to keep your customizations in CVS, or do you?
>
> I'm using svn, the successor to cvs. It's great.
>
> To be honest, I have always tried to avoid customize entirely, since I
> can get far with an apropos search, reading docs, and putting some
> lisp in .emacs. So I don't know whether I'd want different
> customizations on different machines. I already set things up
> differently in .emacs based on host name.
But I though you said in your original post that it was customize which
was causing the problem. I don't know of anything else which attempts to
write stuff directly into your .emacs, although I don't use GNUS.
Best, Darren
--
======================================================================
D. D. Brierton darren@dzr-web.com www.dzr-web.com
Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson)
======================================================================
Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink?, Kevin Rodgers, 2004/03/02