From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed? Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:14:23 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200412140414.iBE4EN202389@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102997844 28962 80.91.229.6 (14 Dec 2004 04:17:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 14 05:17:18 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 1Ce47i-00048Q-00 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:17:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Ce4Hq-0007o5-AM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:27:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ce4HV-0007hN-GT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:27:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ce4HU-0007gd-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Ce4HT-0007g5-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ce46o-0005lS-7v; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:16:22 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iBE4GLFu013420; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:16:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id iBE4EN202389; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:14:23 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:51:17 -0500) 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:31096 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31096 >>From my previous reply: 7. Eventually, in the future, we might figure out some clean UI for specifying which custom files to use and load under which conditions, and for moving definitions between them, but that is something for later. That would require a very careful rewrite of Custom. I might have misunderstood here. Safely switching between multiple custom files and multiple `custom-set-variables' forms in one single Emacs session, without them clobbering each other, is tricky and would, I believe, correspond to a rewrite of Custom. It is not impossible, because, for instance, initsplit does it. On the other hand. using different custom files for different Emacs versions or for different Emacs sessions is not tricky at all. Sincerely, Luc.