* bug#24023: 24.5; Use `custom-file' (if defined), not init file, for `en/disable-command'
@ 2016-07-19 3:55 Drew Adams
2016-07-19 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Drew Adams @ 2016-07-19 3:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 24023
This very old feature still writes to your init file. If you have
defined `custom-file' then it should write to that file instead.
In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'
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* bug#24023: 24.5; Use `custom-file' (if defined), not init file, for `en/disable-command'
2016-07-19 3:55 Drew Adams
@ 2016-07-19 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-19 15:42 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2016-07-19 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 24023
> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 20:55:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> This very old feature still writes to your init file. If you have
> defined `custom-file' then it should write to that file instead.
This feature is not a defcustom, so it doesn't work like one. Perhaps
the easiest way forward would be to make it a defcustom, or something
like one.
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* bug#24023: 24.5; Use `custom-file' (if defined), not init file, for `en/disable-command'
2016-07-19 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2016-07-19 15:42 ` Glenn Morris
2016-07-19 15:48 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2016-07-19 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 24023
See discussion from previous identical report:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/5974
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* bug#24023: 24.5; Use `custom-file' (if defined), not init file, for `en/disable-command'
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@ 2016-07-19 15:47 ` Drew Adams
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From: Drew Adams @ 2016-07-19 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii, Drew Adams; +Cc: 24023
> This feature is not a defcustom, so it doesn't work like one. Perhaps
> the easiest way forward would be to make it a defcustom, or something
> like one.
I see now that this was all discussed in the bug that this one was merged with. I'd forgotten about that bug.
Yes, something should be done, to bring this feature up to the level of current Emacs. A priori, I don't really care what is done or how. IOW, I trust your judgment on this.
The point is that Emacs should not still be writing to a users init file. As mentioned in that other bug thread, two alternative suggestions were:
* Replace this way of enabling/disabling with a way that uses defcustom. (It could involve a wrapper around the `put' thingy or something else.)
* Keep the current mechanism, but write to a different file from the init file (and different from `custom-file').
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* bug#24023: 24.5; Use `custom-file' (if defined), not init file, for `en/disable-command'
2016-07-19 15:42 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2016-07-19 15:48 ` Drew Adams
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From: Drew Adams @ 2016-07-19 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris, Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 24023
> See discussion from previous identical report:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/5974
+1. And apologies for creating a duplicate bug report.
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