Re: .emacs vs .xemacs vs .xemacs.el vs...?
SL Baur wrote:
>> 3) Doing something about the old users' options in their
`.emacs'
>> files -- for instance, by moving them to the new file, or by
>> ignoring multiple entries.[1]
> How about binding custom-set-* (e.g. with flet) during the reading of
> user-init-file, to a function which displays a warning? This could
> suggest that the user move these entries to the new file.
You can't tell which file it is being loaded from. If someone has
changed the value of custom-file and hand loads it in .emacs they will
now lose.
Hmm. Would it make more sense to unconditionally load whichever file
custom-file refers to?
Alternatively, you could flet load-file as well. In general, it might
be useful if load-file `pushed' the current file onto a stack of
active files, e.g. so that errors could be attributed to a particular
file, similar to gcc's `In file included from ...'.
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Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk>