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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/cus-edit.el | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/cus-edit.el b/lisp/cus-edit.el index 438ec7d58c5..fd6f38a033f 100644 --- a/lisp/cus-edit.el +++ b/lisp/cus-edit.el @@ -3678,7 +3678,11 @@ Optional EVENT is the location for the menu." (defcustom custom-file nil "File used for storing customization information. The default is nil, which means to use your init file -as specified by `user-init-file'. +as specified by `user-init-file'. To make this feature work, +you'll need to put something in your init file to specify +the value of `custom-file'. Just customizing the variable +won't suffice, because Emacs won't know which file to load +unless the init file sets `custom-file'. When you change this variable, look in the previous custom file \(usually your init file) for the forms `(custom-set-variables ...)' |