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Re: Customize may not be appropriate for older users
From: |
William F. Hammond |
Subject: |
Re: Customize may not be appropriate for older users |
Date: |
11 Jan 2002 10:28:31 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
Kim F. Storm (http://www.cua.dk) writes:
> You can even keep customizations in a separate file:
>
> Near the bottom of my .emacs, I have (something like) this:
>
> (setq custom-file "~/.emacs.custom")
Hmmm... in INFO we have INFO:/Emacs/Customization and the upstart
(an adjective provoked by the qualifier of users in the subject)
INFO:/Custom, with no cross-references. Isn't that a prima facie
case for the wrong-headedness of "custom" writing in init-file by
default?
Bug 1:
There should be a cross-reference to the documentation about the
variable custom-file, which is INFO:/Custom/The\ Init\ File in
INFO:/Emacs/Customization/Init\ File.
And shouldn't INFO:/Custom be a menu item in
INFO:/Emacs/Customization?
Bug 2:
The default value of custom-file should not be nil.
There is almost never any justification for both the user and a
program writing to the same file.
Always and everywhere, sooner or later, most such arrangements lead to
trouble. A recent notorious example that is very relevant to current
Emacs projects is "/var/spool/mail/user". Isn't this one of the
reasons that mail spools are dying off?
-- Bill
Re: Customize may not be appropriate for older users, David Masterson, 2002/01/11