Subject: 23.0.60; Customizations cannot be saved with empty .emacs

From: Markus Triska <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:38:30 +0100 (CET)

When I comment out or remove all forms in .emacs, and then do:

   emacs --eval "(customize-face 'default)"

The customization buffer reads:

   To apply your changes, use the Save or Set buttons.

However, neither of them is shown.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-11-05 on mt-computer.local
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t