load-home-init-file monstrosity

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I installed XEmacs 21.4.6 today. I was asked wether I wanted to migrate .emacs to .xemacs or something. I answered no, because my .emacs is carefully crafted to work on BOTH platforms. Something was saved in my .emacs. Strange. I checked the beginning and the end of the file, but found nothing. Ok, I do what I wanted to do and forget about it. Just now I start my Emacs again, and notice that something is a bit odd. Hm... Some customization must have changed. And what did I find? Imagine my ire, my blazing hate, the sheer unbelievability of it. This is what I find: ... ;; Customization code. These entries are usually generated automatically (custom-set-variables '(load-home-init-file t t)) ;; When using XEmacs, save customizations in another file! ;; When using Emacs 21, save customizations in another file! (when (featurep 'xemacs) (setq custom-file "~/.xemacs") (load "~/.xemacs")) ... Ah. That must have been what XEmacs saved... This load-home-init-file stuff. But wait a second, why wasn't it saved in my ~/.xemacs file? AND WHERE ARE ALL MY OTHER CUSTOMIZATIONS I LOVE SO MUCH? Just to give you an idea of my situation: ~$ ll .emacs* -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 58781 M=e4r 19 21:09 .emacs -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 62437 Okt 21 22:42 .emacs-2001-10-21 -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 62475 Dez 17 21:16 .emacs-2001-12-17 -rw-rw-r-- 1 alex alex 5189 M=e4r 19 23:05 .emacs.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 58734 M=e4r 19 14:24 .emacs~ About 3.5k of customizations are now lost. My oldest backup is several months old. Oh and look what happened to my .xemacs stuff: ~$ ll .xemacs* -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 0 Jan 23 22:44 .xemacs -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 0 Jan 23 22:43 .xemacs-custom Something is very wrong here. 1. My customization was overwritten. 2. The customization was not written to custom-file. Ok, usually my reports are friendlier. But this hit me where I did not expect it. I would dearly love to say that it's all the fault of the custom code. But that is not it. I LIKE custom. I use it a lot. It usually does what I expect. This is the same old init file problem that bugged me in a previous release -- at the time XEmacs kept nagging me to migrate. Perhaps I should... Alex. ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux confusibombus 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i686 unknown ./configure XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.4.6 Installation prefix: /usr/local Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wshadow Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Internationalization: Mail: Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Load-Path Lisp Shadows: ---------------------- (~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-xemacs /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-xemacs ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-whois /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-whois ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-w3 /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-w3 ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-vm /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-vm ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-srv /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-srv ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-snarf /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-snarf ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-sc /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-sc ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-rmail /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-rmail ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-reportmail /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-reportmail ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-print /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-print ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-migrate /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-migrate ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-mhe /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-mhe ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-merge /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-merge ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-hooks /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-hooks ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-gui /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-gui ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-gnus /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-gnus ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-ftp /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-ftp ~/elisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-com /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/bbdb-com ~/elisp/ibuffer /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/edit-utils/ibuffer ~/elisp/desktop /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/edit-utils/desktop ~/elisp/footnote /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/footnote/footnote ~/elisp/sql /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/prog-modes/sql ~/elisp/python-mode /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/prog-modes/python-mode ~/elisp/sh-script /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/sh-script/sh-script ~/elisp/strokes /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/strokes/strokes ~/elisp/ansi-color /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/text-modes/ansi-color ~/elisp/htmlize /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/text-modes/htmlize ~/elisp/folding /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/text-modes/folding ~/elisp/filladapt /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/text-modes/filladapt) Installed XEmacs Packages: ------------------------- ((zenirc:version 1.13 :type regular) (xslt-process :version 1.06 :type regular) (xemacs-devel :version 1.4 :type single-file) (xemacs-base :version 1.57 :type regular) (w3 :version 1.21 :type regular) (vm :version 7.02 :type regular) (viper :version 1.31 :type regular) (view-process :version 1.11 :type regular) (vhdl :version 1.15 :type regular) (vc-cc :version 1.18 :type 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