Re: A better way to factor custom-set-faces (per OS)

[Colin S. Miller]

Denis Bueno wrote:
> All--
>
> Is there a better way than below [1] to conditionalise my one 
> custom-set-faces call?
>
> I use the same .emacs on several machines which are either OS X or Linux 
> machines. Currently I use different fonts on both machines. However, 
> that is the principal difference I'm trying to account for in 
> conditionalising the calls to custom-set-faces.
>
> Is there a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish?

Denis,

On XEmacs, which separates out the init.el and custom.el files, I use
(setq custom-file (concat "~/.xemacs/custom-" (symbol-name system-type) ".el"))
in my init.el (.emacs.el) so that the customisation file is different for
each OS I run XEmacs on.

See
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html#Saving-Customizations
for further details of how to get this to work for GNU Emacs. (Large file)

The page-at-time manual has this section missing, it should be referenced from
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Easy-Customization.html
but that leads to a 404 error.


HTH,
Colin S. Miller