Re: Custom migration to ~/.xemacs/options.el

Monday, 17 April 2000

        Hrvoje Niksic writes:

...
 Ironically, it doesn't pick one thing, and that one is not
really
 Custom-related: 
...
     (put 'narrow-to-page 'disabled nil) 
...
 I have no idea how that leaked into my `.xemacs-custom', but
I'm sure
 I didn't put it there.  Oh, now I see: 
...
 1997-09-18  Colin Rafferty  <craffert(a)ml.com&gt; 
...
 	* prim/novice.el (disable-command): Made it modify
 	  `custom-file' instead of `user-init-file'. 
...
 	  Stop multiple disable/enable-command calls from adding extra
 	  newlines. 
...
 Not that I blame Colin -- the patch must have made sense at the time.

If I were still at ml.com, I would have the original patch email, and
I could read the text that was above the ChangeLog and patch.

However, giving it a little thought, I think the idea was that we were
trying to stop having XEmacs modify ~/.emacs.  ~/.emacs is for the
user to fool with, and ~/.custom.emacs is for XEmacs to fool with.

In general, I think this is still the right idea.

-- 
Colin

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