From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: raman@google.com (T.V Raman) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature Request: Per-package custom save files? 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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c03::249 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172670 Archived-At: HMM, good point What I'm mostly looking for is to have a modular collection of custom files -- note -- here I'm explicitly talking about customizations for add-on packages -- not for built-ins. Stefan Monnier writes: > > 2. My thought around factoring out custom settings into a > > canonical per-package custom-settings file was to achieve the > > second goal -- not loading settings for packages you dont use -- > > That doesn't really sound like a goal to me. More specifically, I'd > like to know why you care about loading settings you don't use. > > IOW, let's imagine we change it so that the settings are only loaded > once they're needed. How will you tell the difference? > > > Stefan