From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:55:00 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412131555.iBDFt0923015@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87brcyk39w.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:01:12 +0200)
Juri Linkov wrote:
For the user there are two separate issues here: setting the file name
where customize will save customized variables, and loading a file
with user settings (i.e. an init file like ~/.emacs, but in another
location).
If you want to load a file and not make it the custom file, there is
no problem. I _was_ wondering whether there might be any situations
where one might want Custom to write, by default, to a file, which one
does not always want loaded.
I believe it should be possible to disable automatic loading of the
custom file. So we need a variable `custom-file-loaded', which can be
defined with a defvar.
The user would do:
(setq custom-file ...)
(load ...)
(setq custom-file-loaded t)
This would only be necessary for a small minority of users.
Should Stefan's feature cause too much problems, then it could still
be reversed. It is not part of any released version and if the user
is editing his .emacs, then typing an extra `(load ...)' is not that
much extra work, especially since this normally only needs to be done
with a new Emacs release.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-13 15:55 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
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 [this message]
-- 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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