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bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up"
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up" |
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Tue, 24 Dec 2019 21:37:14 -0500 |
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> A priori that sounds complicated, and maybe error
> prone, to me. But maybe it's worth considering.
I am not trying to insist.
> My suggestion would be to just change the comment
> wording a bit, to make clear that future use of
> Customize might overwrite any manual changes you
> make to that code. IOW, state that clearly as a
> major reason _why_ you're advised not to edit the
> code.
I agree that would be an improvement.
> I'd even suggest that if `custom-file' is
> undefined then Customize should immediately ask
> a user to define it, instead of just silently
> writing to a user's init file.
I think that would make Emacs usage a little more complicated
for lots of users, and only a few would benefit.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", (continued)
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", arthur miller, 2019/12/21
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", Drew Adams, 2019/12/22
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2019/12/22
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", Richard Stallman, 2019/12/23
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", Drew Adams, 2019/12/24
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up",
Richard Stallman <=
- bug#38696: "If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up", 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2019/12/25