From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: theming Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:50:23 +0200 Message-ID: <42CD331F.4060604@student.lu.se> References: <42CC7021.5050606@student.lu.se> <42CCD07F.5010509@student.lu.se> <42CD1D70.7070601@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120744474 23559 80.91.229.2 (7 Jul 2005 13:54:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "John S. Yates, Jr." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 15:54:33 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqWp2-0000FE-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:53:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqWqO-0002G6-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqWpc-0001zY-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqWpa-0001yO-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:54:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqWpZ-0001xl-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DqWsI-0006vo-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B813B0002FD07D; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:50:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40562 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40562 Juanma Barranquero wrote: >>I agree to whole message. I have written EmacsW32 just for this above. >> >> > >Much as I like the idea of prepackaged distributions for normal, >non-developer users, the problem I see with many "big" Emacs projects >(like TinyTools, CEDET, JDEE, etc) is that they are much of an >all-or-nothing. You install one of them, you are no longer in Emacs, >but someone's pet idea of what Emacs should look like (yeah, even if >they have a ton or two of customization options). Nothing bat per se, >but I already have my pet Emacs and we've learnt to live with each >other, thanks ;-) > > A very, very wild idea, a save excursion for loading so to say: could all the setting and defining functions be defadviced during loading of such packages in such a way that they saved old states of symbols in a list called say "previous-state" where there are entries for "CEDET" etc. Then you could just use this list to reset the values. Perhaps?