On mån, 2010-10-11 at 18:44 -0700, Greg Stark wrote:
> So we've been over this. All the pieces you need are already there:
> you can handle this without any nasty comment grunging by just writing
> the new setting to a postgresql.auto and including that from
> postgresql.conf. Include a note in postgresql.auto warning users any
> changes in this file will be thrown away when the file is rewritten.
> This is the same method used in .emacs.custom or a million other
> places people wanted automatically written config files.
Seems like a reasonable solution, although I've never heard
of .emacs.custom; my emacsen have always written their custom settings
somewhere in the middle of the .emacs proper.