With Emacs master:
commit d213cf0400ee5cad2e7f4626745fd97b942ff5e9
Date: Thu Jun 18 19:15:05 2015 -0400
but not Emacs 24.5, I see Emacs wipe out my custom-set-variables when I start Emacs, as it sets package-selected-packages for the first time:
diff --git a/emacs/init.el b/emacs/init.el
index 480d711..278cb80 100644
--- a/emacs/init.el
+++ b/emacs/init.el
@@ -245,63 +245,15 @@
;; 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.
- '(Buffer-menu-name-width 64)
- '(ac-delay 1.0)
- '(cc-search-directories
+ '(package-selected-packages
(quote
- ("." "/usr/include" "/usr/local/include/*" "./src" "../src" "./include" "../include" "./inc" "../inc" "./public" "../public" "./internal" "../internal")))
- '(column-number-mode t)
- '(delete-by-moving-to-trash t)
- '(dired-auto-revert-buffer t)
- '(ediff-merge-split-window-function (quote split-window-vertically))
- '(evil-ex-hl-update-delay 0.01)
- '(evil-ex-visual-char-range t)
- '(evil-highlight-closing-paren-at-point-states nil)
- '(evil-intercept-maps nil)
- '(evil-kbd-macro-suppress-motion-error t)
- '(evil-mouse-word (quote evil-move-WORD))
- '(evil-move-cursor-back nil)
- '(evil-overriding-maps nil)
- '(evil-search-module (quote evil-search))
- '(evil-shift-width my-offset)
- '(ff-always-try-to-create nil)
- '(ff-special-constructs nil)
- '(font-lock-maximum-decoration (quote ((c++-mode . 2))))
- '(frame-background-mode 'dark)
- '(global-whitespace-mode t)
- '(inhibit-startup-screen t)
- '(inverse-video t)
- '(jde-global-classpath my-java-classpath)
- '(jde-jdk-registry
- (quote
- (("1.6.0" . "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64"))))
- '(jde-sourcepath my-java-sourcepath)
- '(large-file-warning-threshold 1000000000.0)
- '(message-log-max 100000)
- '(nxml-child-indent my-offset)
- '(nxml-sexp-element-flag t)
- '(python-indent my-offset)
- '(python-indent-offset my-offset)
- '(scroll-conservatively 101)
- '(scroll-margin 4)
- '(sentence-end-double-space nil)
- '(show-paren-mode t)
- '(tags-case-fold-search nil)
- '(tool-bar-mode nil)
- '(undo-tree-visualizer-diff nil)
- '(undo-tree-visualizer-timestamps t)
- '(whitespace-style (quote (face tabs trailing)))
- '(x-select-enable-clipboard t)
- '(x-select-enable-primary t))
+ (goto-chg haskell-mode flylisp evil-numbers diff-hl adjust-parens))))
(custom-set-faces
*Messages* buffer shows:
Saving file /Users/boreilly/unihome/emacs/init.el...
Wrote /Users/boreilly/unihome/emacs/init.el [2 times]
Saving file /Users/boreilly/unihome/emacs/init.el...
Wrote /Users/boreilly/unihome/emacs/init.el [2 times]
(NB: I symlink this init.el to .emacs)
These messages don't appear when starting Emacs 24.5.
Also note, my init.el calls package-initialize and package-install directly. The writes to init.el occur during a call to (package-install 'goto-chg), which is not installed.