Re: customize-variable

[John Paul Wallington]

Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au> wrote:

> I have my config sorted out nicely into different files like .gnus,
> .emacs, and all of them are cvs controlled as well. However, every time I
> use customize-variable, it simply inserts the information randomly to a
> customize block, I had to manually move them around, or cut into
> different files in order to keep them readable.

How about frobbing the variable `custom-file', telling Emacs to save
your customization information elsewhere ?

You could put something like:

(setq custom-file (expand-file-name "~/emacs-custom-settings.el"))
(load custom-file)

in your .emacs file.

-- 
John Paul Wallington