skip(a)pobox.com writes:
We recently switched from 21.4.something to 21.5.28 at work, mostly
because
the powers-that-be wanted to dump some older shared library to which 21.4
was linked. I had built and installed 21.5.28 and was using it personally
without any significant problems but hadn't yet made it the default.
Now that it's loose in the wild the occasional problem/question from users
pops up. Today, one guy complained about problems with cut-n-paste between
xemacs sessions. First thing I noticed was XEmacs complaining about not
being able to open ~/.xemacs/init.el. I fixed that by creating an empty
file. His cut-n-paste errors disappeared as well. Alas, now it fails to
load his ~/.emacs file.
Bearing in mind the recent flurry of messages about auto-conversion of
~/.emacs to ~/.xemacs/init.el (which I almost completely ignored), what is
the best (read: most foolproof) way to convert his ~/.emacs file to
~/.xemacs/init.el without hosing his .emacs file? (Lots of people here use
both emacs and xemacs, either by accident or design, so ~/.emacs must be
preserved.)
Hi skip, you should be able to avoid init file migration with
(setq load-home-init-file t)
in your user-init-file.
I ues the equivalent (custom-set-variables ...) form, since I have
also not migrated to use init-directory.
It does not help a GNU Emacs user though, who does not know about this
nastly little trap first time around.
Adrian
Thanks,
Skip
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