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-rw-r--r--lisp/ChangeLog3
-rw-r--r--lisp/cus-edit.el5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 7d513375741..11cbd4f8ed7 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2001-05-27 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
+ * cus-edit.el (custom-file): Don't assume we were invoked with -q
+ unless ~/.emacs exists.
+
* novice.el (enable-command): If user-init-file is nil or does not
exist, default to "~/.emacs" (~/_emacs on DOS and, maybe, Windows).
diff --git a/lisp/cus-edit.el b/lisp/cus-edit.el
index e3e1421db4f..b36414d3ac6 100644
--- a/lisp/cus-edit.el
+++ b/lisp/cus-edit.el
@@ -3447,7 +3447,10 @@ to the new custom file. This will preserve your existing customizations."
(defun custom-file ()
"Return the file name for saving customizations."
- (if (null user-init-file)
+ (if (and (null user-init-file)
+ (or (file-exists-p "~/.emacs")
+ (and (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
+ (file-exists-p "~/_emacs"))))
;; Started with -q, i.e. the file containing Custom settings
;; hasn't been read. Saving settings there would overwrite
;; other settings.