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: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed? Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:21:08 +0100 Message-ID: <003e01c4db31$e45a2550$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <075b01c4d9a4$52799460$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <00bb01c4daee$5eb81350$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200412051733.iB5HXIX13206@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <000001c4db1a$8d3770f0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200412060046.iB60kZj15003@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102296121 26327 80.91.229.6 (6 Dec 2004 01:22:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 01:22:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jpw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 06 02:21:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cb7Za-0003bv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:21:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cb7jJ-0005SL-7z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:31:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cb7jC-0005SG-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:31:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cb7jC-0005S4-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:31:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cb7jC-0005S1-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:31:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.116] (helo=av1-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cb7ZF-0002y0-3O; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:21:33 -0500 Original-Received: by av1-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 6DE0237EB6; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:21:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.183]) by av1-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EEB937E58; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:21:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t2o58p66.telia.com [62.20.165.66]) by smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 521CE37E44; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:21:31 +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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30732 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30732 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luc Teirlinck" > Except that `custom-set-variables' does various stuff that `setq' does > not. As a result, certain of the more subtle advantages of saving a > variable through Custom would be lost. I meant that perhaps this things would not matter with proper functions for :set and :get for custom-file. > Of course, the first thing to decide is whether we want to change the > code or the documentation. Your code seems complex and there are > potential pitfalls. I agree. - Lennart