things are "changed outside customize buffer"

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. In XEmacs 21.0 "Erzgeberg" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux) of Thu Aug 20 1998 on Thor Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: I'm trying to customize xemacs to suit my needs. Mostly failing because a lot of variables are reported as "this option has been changed outside the customize buffer." so any value I input there is erased the next time I launch xemacs. The latest ones I found are: Customize->Xemacs->Programming->Tools->Ediff->Use Toolbar Customize->Xemacs->Programming->Tools->Ediff Highlighting->Use Faces Customize->Xemacs->Programming->Tools->Ediff Highlighting->Highlht All Customize->Xemacs->Environment->Display->Ctl Arrow I also have a strang behaviour with the Syntax Highlighting: It seems to be set up correctly, but it does NOT highliht my "C" files until I go again to Options->Syntax Highlighting and change something (even if I do not change anything (most is selected and I select it again). Then It will work until I kill xemacs I have an almost completely clean ~/.emacs (I deleted the old one to try to find out who is "changing the options", and I have the same behaviour with a ~/.emacs empty but for what customize writes). My current ~/.emacs follows (my knowledge of [e]lisp is *very* limited): ==================== ;; ;; Local functions ;; (defun kill-current-buffer () "Kill the current buffer." (interactive) (kill-buffer nil) ) ;; ;; Keypad Key bindings ;; (global-set-key [kp-0] 'set-mark-command) (global-set-key [kp-add] 'copy-region-as-kill) (global-set-key [kp-decimal] 'delete-char ) (global-set-key [kp-subtract] 'kill-region) (global-set-key [kp-multiply] 'yank) (global-set-key [kp-divide] 'yank-pop) ;; ;; Function key bindings ;; (global-set-key [f1] 'help-command) (global-set-key [f2] 'save-buffer) (global-set-key [f3] 'find-file-other-window) (global-set-key [f5] 'delete-other-windows) (global-set-key [f6] 'other-window) (global-set-key [f8] 'next-error) (global-set-key [f9] 'compile) (global-set-key [f10] 'shell-command) (global-set-key [f12] 'kill-current-buffer) ;; ;; Display function in topbar menu ;; (require 'func-menu) (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'fume-add-menubar-entry) ;; ;; Automatic 'fromdos' functionality ;; (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'remove-or-convert-trailing-ctl-M) (defun remove-or-convert-trailing-ctl-M () "Propose to remove or convert trailing ^M from a file." (interactive) (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (if (search-forward "\^M" nil t) ;; a ^M is found (if (or (= (preceding-char) ?\^J) (= (following-char) ?\^J) ) ;; Must find a way to display the buffer before this question (if (y-or-n-p "Remove trailing ^M ? ") (progn (goto-char (point-min)) (perform-replace "\^M" "" nil nil nil) (pop-mark) ) (message "No transformation.") ) (if (y-or-n-p "Convert ^M into ^J ? ") (progn (goto-char (point-min)) (perform-replace "\^M" "\^J" nil nil nil) (pop-mark) ) (message "No transformation.") ) ) ;;(message "No ^M in this file !") ) ) ) (autoload 'pc-select-mode "pc/pc-select" nil t) (pc-select-mode t) (custom-set-variables '(init-face-from-resources nil) '(speedbar-package t) '(locale-package nil) '(paren-mode (quote blink-paren) nil (paren)) '(egg-its-package nil) '(vc-package t) '(comment-column 56) '(mouse-avoidance-mode (quote banish) nil (avoid)) '(delete-key-deletes-forward t) '(sounds-au-package t) '(strokes-package t) '(font-lock-use-colors t) '(mew-package t) '(c-backslash-column 80) '(font-lock-use-fonts nil) '(pcl-cvs-package nil) '(compilation-mouse-motion-initiate-parsing t) '(ediff-split-window-function (quote split-window-horizontally)) '(ediff-use-toolbar-p t) '(c-cleanup-list (quote (brace-else-brace brace-elseif-brace empty-defun-braces scope-operator))) '(mule-base-package nil) '(ediff-use-faces t) '(c-default-style "user") '(igrep-package t) '(leim-package nil) '(mine-package t) '(truncate-lines t) '(c-electric-pound-behavior (quote (alignleft))) '(line-number-mode t) '(edict-package nil) '(net-utils-package t) '(kill-whole-line t) '(mail-lib-package t) '(slider-package t) '(user-mail-address "mc5686(a)mclink.it" t) '(query-user-mail-address nil) '(get-frame-for-buffer-default-instance-limit 4) '(vc-cc-package nil)) (custom-set-faces) ==================== Recent keystrokes: M-x C-g misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): Loading mail-abbrevs... Loading emacsbug...done Quit Loading emacsbug... Loading cus-face...done Loading cus-face... Loading avoid...done Loading avoid... Paren mode is blink-paren Loading paren...done