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Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed? |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:34:30 +0100 |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Stallman" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file)
needed?
> I read the various messages about custom-file, and this
> is what I think we should do.
>
> 1. We should eliminate custom-file as a defcustom.
Yes. But I believe we also should try to eleminate it from the
(custom-set-variables ...) where it currently could be. Could that be done
by avoiding defvar too and using boundp later for the checks?
> 2. We should eliminate loading custom-file on startup.
> We should tell users that .emacs should load the appropriate file
> where custom values are stored.
Yes. But maybe we could reuse Stefans idea of loading "custom file" after
.emacs in another way. I would like to get (custom-set-variables ...) out of
.emacs by default, because I believe most users do not want it to be edited
automatically. Why not use another file name as default for
(custom-set-variables ...), say .emacs-custom? This file could be loaded by
startup.el if not loaded before, the way Stefan has suggested for "custom
file".
> 3. Calling custom-set-variables in a file should add that file
> to a list of files that have done so.
>
> 4. Evaluating a custom-set-variables call in a buffer should not do
> any such thing.
Why not?
> 5. When saving custom variables, if custom-file is set, save in that
file....
> 6. If the user wants to specify which file to save in,...
> 7. Eventually, in the future, we might figure out some clean UI for ...
I agree.
- Lennart
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, (continued)
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Lennart Borgman, 2004/12/10
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/12/10
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Lennart Borgman, 2004/12/10
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/10
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/10
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/10
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/12
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Juri Linkov, 2004/12/13
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/13
Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/13
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/13
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/14
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/14
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/15
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/15
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/16
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/16
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/12/17
- Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?, Kim F. Storm, 2004/12/17