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Re: Enabling a command forever - too easy

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From: Dave Gillespie
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 19:22
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>>>>> On 16 Apr 91 17:09:34 GMT, bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barr3y Jaspan) said:

> I would argue that "making the command permanent" is not something emacs lisp
> code should try to do.  All it is going to do is add a sexp to the end of the
> user's .emacs file, and that isn't always appropriate.  (For example, my
> .emacs is a symlink to emacs.elc, which is a compiled form of my emacs.el. 
> Adding something to the end of emacs.elc would be the wrong choice since it
> will get blown away next time I compile emacs.el.)

Calc has a calc-settings-file variable which defaults to "~/.emacs",
which all the "permanent" commands use.  Perhaps this variable should
be moved to Emacs itself.  Then you could change this to "~/emacs.el"
if that's the way you have arranged things.

								-- Dave
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