Re: Changes in emacs.el

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op woensdag 31 okt 2012 14:45 CET schreef Michael Heerdegen:

>> Sometimes I get a message that .emacs is read-only. This is true,
>> because it is a link to an emacs.el file that is owned by root and
>> read-only for the user.
>> I get the question: do you want to write? If I say yes, it fails and
>> my message/article is not send. If I say no it is also not send.
>>
>> I could live with it, because when I try to send it again, it
>> succeeds. But annoying it is.
>>
>> When looking more closely I found that two things are changed.
>>
>> I have a custom-set-variables section and beside changing the sequence
>> it adds (beside other things):
>> ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>> ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>> ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>> '(canlock-password "…")
>> '(delete-selection-mode nil)
>> '(mark-even-if-inactive t)
>>
>> It also adds:
>> (custom-set-faces
>> ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>> ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>> ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>> )
>>
>> I do not have a custom-set-faces in the emacs.el.
>>
>> Why does emacs tries to change .emacs and can I circumvebt this?
>
> I think you must only set `custom-file'.  From the doc:
>
> | File used for storing customization information.
> | The default is nil, which means to use your init file
> | as specified by `user-init-file'.  If the value is not nil,
> | it should be an absolute file name.

I now added:
    (setq custom-file "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-custom.el")
    (load custom-file t nil t t)

There is only one problem:
    ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.

Now there will be two. I will see if this is going to give problems.


Also: why does Emacs do this? I never do anything with custom.

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Cecil Westerhof
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