configuration not saved when selecting Options->Save Options

[Pekka Jääskeläinen]

Binary package hint: emacs21

This is with Dapper.

Steps to reproduce:

1) start emacs, change an option (e.g., Syntax Highlighing)
2) Options->Save Options
3) restart emacs

Syntax Highlighting option is not changed.

[Dave Love (fx-gnu)]

It works for me. (I think I wrote that feature.)
Does it not modify your .emacs, assuming that
custom-file points to it?

[Pekka Jääskeläinen (pekka-jaaskelainen)]

It does not modify the .emacs, even it claims to do so in the minibuffer.

visit0r@r0ck:~$ cp .emacs .emacs-old
visit0r@r0ck:~$ emacs [here I change the Syntax Highlighting and Save Options]
visit0r@r0ck:~$ diff .emacs .emacs-old
[no changes]

Here's the .emacs (if I have added something that breaks it):

(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/stow/speedbar-0.13a")

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.jsp$" . java-mode))

(autoload 'speedbar-frame-mode "speedbar" "Popup a speedbar frame" t)
(autoload 'speedbar-get-focus "speedbar" "Jump to speedbar frame" t)
;; Texinfo fancy chapter tags
(add-hook 'texinfo-mode-hook (lambda () (require 'sb-texinfo)))
;; w3 link listings
(autoload 'w3-speedbar-buttons "sb-w3" "s3 specific speedbar button generator.")
(line-number-mode 1)
(column-number-mode 1)

(setq default-tab-width 4)
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

(defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
  (c-set-style "stroustrup")
  ;; other customizations can go here
  )
  (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook)

(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(case-fold-search t)
 '(current-language-environment "English")
 '(default-input-method "rfc1345")
 '(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))
 '(show-paren-mode t nil (paren))
 '(transient-mark-mode t))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 )

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.icc$" . c++-mode))

[lucaramel (lucaramel)]

I can confirm this bug with emacs-snapshot-gtk on Dapper. Emacs just won't save any settings whatsoever.

[Dave Love (fx-gnu)]

You wrote:

> It does not modify the .emacs, even it claims to do so in the minibuffer.

That's not surprising, given that syntax highlighting is apparently
already on:

> '(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))

[Dave Love (fx-gnu)]

lucaramel <email address hidden> writes:

> I can confirm this bug with emacs-snapshot-gtk on Dapper.

There appears to be no such bug in emacs21, but if there's one in
another package, report it against that one. (I find the development
Emacs too unstable to use and quite unrewarding to report bugs against
-- I don't understand why it's packaged.)

> Emacs just won't save any settings whatsoever.

That's at least not true with recent CVS source.

[Dave Love (fx-gnu)]

I should have said:

Pekka Jääskeläinen <email address hidden> writes:

> '(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))

If that doesn't actually work, something must be turning it off later,
perhaps in default.el.

[It would be better to set the other things with Custom, including
customizing `c-default-style'. Also, setting the tab width isn't
recommended.]

[Pekka Jääskeläinen (pekka-jaaskelainen)]

It does work, but it does not change when I switch the font-lock on/off in the menu. Obviously I tried to switch it off in this case.

[Pekka Jääskeläinen (pekka-jaaskelainen)]

I'm using emacs21, BTW.

[Micah Cowan (micahcowan)]

I was able to confirm this problem. Both with variables that already existed within custom-set-variables, and others that had been set through other means in my .emacs. I was unable to save any settings whatsoever by this means.

If, as Dave suggests, this is not the case in CVS, then perhaps patching the solution will be straightforward.

[Micah Cowan (micahcowan)]

For a user that does not yet have a .emacs, the option saving works. When .emacs does exist (even when it's the one that was saved via this feature), it is not changed (Emacs does give messages about the fact that .emacs has been written).

[Jorge (aquino-jorge)]

I got this behavior as well -- emacs21 on Ubuntu Edgy. Customizations WILL NOT save for anything!! (Very frustrating!)

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Pekka Jääskeläinen (pekka-jaaskelainen)]

Seems to work now on 9.10

[ReimarBauer (reimarbauer)]

can you please show the fix patch for 9.04.

[Pekka Jääskeläinen (pekka-jaaskelainen)]

No clue, just tested it and it worked. Sorry.