Mercurial > emacs
changeset 37618:764853859fbc
(Changing an Option): Document that "emacs -q" cannot save customizations.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 08 May 2001 12:53:03 +0000 |
| parents | 35040ab2df64 |
| children | 3b026479775e |
| files | man/custom.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/custom.texi Tue May 08 12:31:31 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/custom.texi Tue May 08 12:53:03 2001 +0000 @@ -505,6 +505,7 @@ editable field, use @kbd{C-o} or @kbd{C-q C-j}. @cindex saving option value +@cindex customized options, saving Setting the option changes its value in the current Emacs session; @dfn{saving} the value changes it for future sessions as well. This works by writing code into your @file{~/.emacs} file so as to set the @@ -512,6 +513,12 @@ invoke @samp{[State]} and select the @samp{Save for Future Sessions} operation. + If Emacs was invoked with the @option{-q} or @option{--no-init-file} +options (@pxref{Initial Options}), it will not let you save your +customizations in your @file{~/.emacs} init file. This is because +saving customizations from such a session would wipe out all the other +customizations you might have on your init file. + You can also restore the option to its standard value by invoking @samp{[State]} and selecting the @samp{Erase Customization} operation. There are actually three reset operations: