From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
Cc: 8720@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8720: 24.0.50; load-theme in .emacs makes it easy to inadvertently delete custom-set variables
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:34:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yyx7h864ls3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hb84pt51.fsf@engster.org> (David Engster's message of "Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:41:30 +0200")
David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
> I'm afraid even with your patch the actual feature will still not
> work, meaning you'll be asked if you want to "treat this theme as
> safe" every time you start Emacs, because the customize section simply
> hasn't been read yet.
Yes, you're right.
> I guess to reliably use customize during startup, it would have to
> automatically read the custom sections as soon as it is loaded. Is that
> somehow possible?
Not without making Emacs startup way more complicated than it is.
Since there appears to be no way to really solve this problem, I suggest
simply mitigating it, by adding an optional argument to `load-theme'
skips the confirmation. Users who wish to call `load-theme' in the init
file can then use this argument.
If no one has a better suggestion, I will go ahead and implement this,
and update the relevant docstrings to mention this pitfall.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-28 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-23 19:58 bug#8720: 24.0.50; load-theme in .emacs makes it easy to inadvertently delete custom-set variables David Engster
2011-06-04 23:59 ` Chong Yidong
2011-06-05 8:41 ` David Engster
2011-06-28 4:34 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-06-06 17:13 ` Stefan Monnier
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