Re: multiple Emacs versions on w32

[Kevin Rodgers]

Phillip Lord wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: "Phillip Lord" <address@hidden>
> > > Or alternatively you could use the emacs-version variable, and
> > > have your .emacs work appropriately. You'd need check that your
> > > `custom-file' is being set appropriately.
> >
> > But this won't solve the original problem, as I understand it: that
> > Emacs updates .emacs when you save certain settings.  Setting
> > `custom-file' is not going to resolve this 100%, as some packages
> > write to .emacs.
>
> I agree. The disabled commands option writes to .emacs. 
>
> If I may be so bold, I think that this is a problem with emacs. 
> Really, all packages which write to somewhere should be configurable
> through a single variable. 

diasable-command and enable-command write to user-init-file, if it 
exists.  If it doesn't exist, it writes to ~/.emacs.

So put this in ~/.emacs:

(or (file-exists-p (setq user-init-file
                         (expand-file-name (concat ".emacs-"
                                                   emacs-major-version)
                                           "~")))
    (setq user-init-file
          (expand-file-name ".emacs-" "~")))

;;(setq custom-file user-init-file)

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Kevin Rodgers