Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> writes: > Sometimes I get a message that .emacs is read-only. This is true, > because it is a link to an emacs.el file that is owned by root and > read-only for the user. > I get the question: do you want to write? If I say yes, it fails and > my message/article is not send. If I say no it is also not send. > > I could live with it, because when I try to send it again, it > succeeds. But annoying it is. > > When looking more closely I found that two things are changed. > > I have a custom-set-variables section and beside changing the sequence > it adds (beside other things): > ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. > '(canlock-password "…") > '(delete-selection-mode nil) > '(mark-even-if-inactive t) > > It also adds: > (custom-set-faces > ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. > ) > > I do not have a custom-set-faces in the emacs.el. > > Why does emacs tries to change .emacs and can I circumvebt this?
I think you must only set `custom-file'. From the doc: | File used for storing customization information. | The default is nil, which means to use your init file | as specified by `user-init-file'. If the value is not nil, | it should be an absolute file name. Regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
