From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-file-hook as illustration of Custom problems Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:19:09 +0100 Message-ID: <002901c50c99$e4ed6560$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <200502040036.j140atb03430@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200502051854.j15IsGZ07501@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107729634 13483 80.91.229.2 (6 Feb 2005 22:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 06 23:40:33 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cxv4u-0004mH-2h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:40:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxvIu-0006dj-BC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CxvIm-0006dL-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CxvIK-0006aG-Gd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:54:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxvIE-0006Q1-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.115] (helo=av1-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cxukk-00088i-Fc; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: by av1-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id C879D37E99; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:19:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.183]) by av1-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55E737E96; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:19:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t2o58p156.telia.com [62.20.165.156]) by smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B0C5A37E4E; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:19:36 +0100 (CET) Original-To: , "Luc Teirlinck" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32973 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32973 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Stallman" > I guess that Custom could use an internal custom-list-var for every > list-var. Everything specified in the definition of the defcustom > should be in custom-list-var and hence, removable. > > The symbol property that records the value according to Custom > can serve this purpose. Instead of saying "Changed outside Custom", > it can diff the two values to determine which elements were added > outside Custom and which were added within it. > > After Custom is used to change the latter set, it can merge the two > sets. Maybe we should not forget that this symbol property according to Per A is a valuable tool to find errors in the handling of defcustom symbols. Perhaps that possibility can be retained by adding a new property corresponding to the users added part?