GNU bug report logs - #1974
23.0.60; gnus writes customize file

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: trentbuck <at> gmail.com

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:20:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1974: closed (23.0.60; gnus writes customize file)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:24:01 +0000
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From: trentbuck <at> gmail.com
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Cc: rfrancoise <at> debian.org
Subject: 23.0.60; gnus writes customize file
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:11:45 -0800 (PST)
When using gnus, I find that it tries to write out my customize
preferences whenever I send a message.  This is bloody annoying, as
.emacs is version-controlled, and I do not *have* any
customize-managed preferences.

| Wrote /home/twb/News/drafts/drafts/1
| Mark set
| Sending...
| Wrote /home/twb/.Auto/.emacs.d/custom-sucks.el
| Sending news via news.gmane.org using nntp...
| Sending...done
| Deleting article /home/twb/News/drafts/drafts/1 in drafts...

To stop gnus messing with my .emacs, I have the following in .emacs:

| (setq custom-file "~/.emacs.d/custom-sucks.el") ; this is never load-file'd

...but it's still annoying from an aesthetic standpoint.

The custom-sucks.el file written by gnus is:

| (custom-set-variables
|   ;; 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 "acc239ecbc3348a6f02d22b49ac0743957b28655"))
| (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.
|  )


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
 of 2009-01-19 on elegiac, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20090118-1)
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.60/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.60/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  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_AU.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: rcirc

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  partial-completion-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  use-hard-newlines: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-c C-c C-h e C-x ESC O B C-x b # e RET C-c C-c W r 
o t e SPC / h o m e / t w b / N e w s / d r a f t s 
/ d r a f t s / 1 RET M a r k SPC s e t RET S e n d 
i n g . . . RET W r o t e SPC / h o m e / t w b / . 
A u t o / . e m a c s . d / c u s t o m - s u c k s 
. e l ESC < ESC [ 4 ~ ; ESC O B ; ESC O B ESC q ESC 
O C C-q C-j C-d C-d ESC O A C-c C-c RET . . . w h y 
SPC d o e s SPC G N U S SPC ESC b ESC l SPC i n s i 
s t SPC o n SPC w r i t i n g SPC o u t SPC m y SPC 
c u s t o m i z e SPC ESC b ESC b C-e DEL ESC b ESC 
b ESC f ESC b ESC f SPC ( e m p t y ) ESC [ 4 ~ p r 
e f e r e n c e s SPC w h e n e v e r SPC I SPC s e 
n d SPC a SPC f i l e ? ESC b ESC d m e s a DEL s a 
g e RET ESC x r e p o r t SPC e m a c s SPC b u g 
RET

Recent messages:
Mark set [3 times]
Wrote /home/twb/News/drafts/drafts/1
Mark set
Sending...
Wrote /home/twb/.Auto/.emacs.d/custom-sucks.el
Sending news via news.gmane.org using nntp...
Sending...done
Deleting article /home/twb/News/drafts/drafts/1 in drafts...
Type C-c C-c to return text to #emacs <at> irc.freenode.net, or C-c C-k to cancel
Mark set


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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 1974-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1974: 23.0.60; gnus writes customize file
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:31:02 -0800
Closing this non-bug.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi <at> gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


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