Re: Customize Rogue

[Per Abrahamsen]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>    It might be nice if Custom wrote out a series of custom-setq 
>    calls into .emacs, one per variabl, rather than writing a single
>    sexp that sets all the variables.
>
> That would indeed change the situation.  In this situation a user-set
> custom-setq would indeed be indistinguishable from a Custom set one
> and hence would and should set 'custom-saved.  This is not the current
> situation however.  It seems to me that changing this situation can
> not be done in a simple function with a few lines of code.  To me it
> seems to require a careful rewrite of Custom.  Per touched on this
> possibility in another message.  Per is way more qualified than me to
> judge the feasibility of actually doing this.

It would require rewriting a single function, custom-save-variables.
As long as all the 'custom-setq' were required to be at the top level
of custom-file, I don't think that would be too hard.