From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, jpw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:52:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001f01c4dd4e$b347a0e0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200412080435.iB84ZvQ06453@raven.dms.auburn.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luc Teirlinck" <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
> It does not appear to me that your reply addresses the following
> argument I made previously:
Hi Luc,
Sorry, I might have missed this. I do think in the same lines as you below.
I answered to Juris proposal in another message. There I said that things
like this could come after release. I see no problem with that if we use
Juri's approach.
- Lennart
> On second thought, I start doubting the utility of the feature you are
> proposing. One of the main reasons to have a custom file is to have
> different custom files for different versions of Emacs. Those
> versions share .emacs. So Custom should not write anything into
> .emacs of the type you are proposing, since the custom file usually is
> version dependent and .emacs is version independent.
>
> If Custom is to write anything in .emacs, it should allow the user to
> specify different custom files for different ranges of Emacs versions
> and write a `cond' form into .emacs of the type below. That might be
> useful, but I believe we should wait with that until after the release.
...
> `custom-file' according to the Emacs version (maybe using an alist),
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-08 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-04 1:53 Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed? Lennart Borgman
2004-12-04 23:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-05 21:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-06 0:24 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-06 14:10 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-07 2:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-08 4:40 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-06 2:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-07 4:23 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-05 15:50 ` John Paul Wallington
2004-12-05 17:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-05 17:33 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-05 22:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-06 0:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-06 1:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-06 4:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-06 13:04 ` Stefan
2004-12-06 18:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-06 18:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-06 21:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-07 2:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-07 9:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-07 3:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-07 2:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-08 4:40 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-07 3:50 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-07 4:23 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-07 5:39 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-08 0:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-08 4:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-08 17:52 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2004-12-08 4:42 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-08 13:27 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-08 17:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-08 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-08 19:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-08 20:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-08 22:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-08 4:40 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-09 2:20 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-09 2:24 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-09 22:06 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-10 5:54 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-10 15:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-10 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-10 18:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-10 20:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-11 1:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-11 3:38 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-11 3:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-11 4:11 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-13 3:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-13 9:01 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-13 15:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-13 19:51 Richard Stallman
2004-12-14 0:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-14 23:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-14 1:50 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-14 23:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-15 2:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-15 23:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-16 0:48 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-16 4:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-17 0:54 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-17 5:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-17 13:20 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-20 10:56 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-21 0:48 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-23 0:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-25 15:13 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-26 2:31 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-14 4:14 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-17 15:31 LENNART BORGMAN
2004-12-23 14:07 LENNART BORGMAN
2004-12-23 18:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-28 1:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-28 4:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-28 17:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-23 18:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
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