CVS [Was load-home-init-file monstrosity]

Alex Schroeder <kensanata(a)yahoo.com&gt; writes: [...] I completely understanding the blazing hate. I would feel the same. With absolutely no victim blaming intention, I'll take this time to plug keeping all such files under revision control. I find it especially useful for my emacs files due to their complexity and how many machines and platforms they are shared across. And what with (x)emacs's CVS support, it's totally easy. I've found the best way for me is to have all such files in a single subdirectory of my home directory, and set up symlinks to the places programs expect the files to be. So, when setting up an account on a new machine I only have to: cd cvs -d whatever checkout init ln -sf init/*(.) . # requires zsh for that and that's generally that. Even works on NT. Taking this opportunity to check that I'm not sitting on any important and not yet checked in changes to my files. To relate this to Alex's dire situation, I'm thinking it would be a good thing if any (x)emacs packages which edit .emacs, init.el, custom.el or other such files saved a uniquely named backup of that file before proceeding. I'm willing to do the work on that. -- Brady Montz bradym(a)balestra.org