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Ivan Malison 2016-09-13 17:49:48 -07:00
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@ -38,16 +38,17 @@ possible.
(setq load-prefer-newer t)
#+END_SRC
** Custom Files
It's annoying to have emacs randomly add stuff to your init.el
whenever you customize a variable. By setting a custom file other than
init.el that is ignored in git, random commits with nothing but
variable settings are avoided.
The default value of ~custom-file~ is just the current user's ~.emacs.d/init.el~
file. Emacs will add content to ~custom-file~ whenever a variable is customized
or marked as safe. When init.el is version controlled, it is quite annoying to
have random machine-generated variable settings amended to it because those
changes are often not worth keeping permanently, so we set a different custom
file here to avoid this situation.
custom-before.el is loaded before the rest of init.el, while
custom-after.el is loaded afterwards. this-machine.el has
customizations that should only apply to the current machine.
custom-before and custom-after are not version controlled in the
dotfiles repo but they are shared across machines elsewhere.
custom-before.el is loaded before the rest of init.el, while custom-after.el is
loaded afterwards. this-machine.el has customizations that should only apply to
the current machine. custom-before and custom-after are not version controlled
in the dotfiles repo but they are shared across machines elsewhere.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defvar machine-custom "~/.emacs.d/this-machine.el")
(defvar custom-after-file "~/.emacs.d/custom-after.el")