Re: [Bug: 21.5-b29] Xemacs ignores custom.el
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Jeff Sparkes writes:
> Odd, from my xemacs -q *scratch-buffer* on Ubuntu, with a build no
> more than two weeks old:
>
> emacs-version
> "21.5 (beta29) \"garbanzo\" 70b15ac66ee5+ XEmacs Lucid"
> custom-file
> nil
You can't test it with -q. custom-file is computed dynamically using
`make-custom-file-name' (in lisp/cus-file.el) in `load-user-init-file'
(in lisp/startup.el). If you do -q, all that code is bypassed until
you load the init files.
Damn that smart software!
> I've had it set to "~/.xemacs/custom.el" for
years. I think that should be
> the default
It *is* the default. See lisp/cus-file.el.
There must have been a time in the past 20 years when it wasn't true
for XEmacs. Guess I can remove that line of my init.el.
The other Emacs still doesn't have a default custom-file.
> so that customize doesn't mess with my ~/.xemacs/init.el
It shouldn't. If custom-file is nil, attempts to save customizations
fail with "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil". (Quick reading of the
code, lightly tested, too.)
I remember when I first used customize it did that. That must have been
in the 90's.
For the purposes of this thread, I was wondering the if the custom file
was being loaded at all. Turns out that it was being loaded for Rodney.
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