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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) (setq load-prefer-newer t)
#+END_SRC #+END_SRC
** Custom Files ** Custom Files
It's annoying to have emacs randomly add stuff to your init.el The default value of ~custom-file~ is just the current user's ~.emacs.d/init.el~
whenever you customize a variable. By setting a custom file other than file. Emacs will add content to ~custom-file~ whenever a variable is customized
init.el that is ignored in git, random commits with nothing but or marked as safe. When init.el is version controlled, it is quite annoying to
variable settings are avoided. 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-before.el is loaded before the rest of init.el, while custom-after.el is
custom-after.el is loaded afterwards. this-machine.el has loaded afterwards. this-machine.el has customizations that should only apply to
customizations that should only apply to the current machine. the current machine. custom-before and custom-after are not version controlled
custom-before and custom-after are not version controlled in the in the dotfiles repo but they are shared across machines elsewhere.
dotfiles repo but they are shared across machines elsewhere.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defvar machine-custom "~/.emacs.d/this-machine.el") (defvar machine-custom "~/.emacs.d/this-machine.el")
(defvar custom-after-file "~/.emacs.d/custom-after.el") (defvar custom-after-file "~/.emacs.d/custom-after.el")