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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rogue option init-file-user
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:01:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BFC9D2.4090101@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601070348.k073mcR00400@raven.dms.auburn.edu>

Luc Teirlinck wrote:

>init-file-user is usually rogue:
>
>  init-file-user: Hide Value Value Menu String: 
>     State: CHANGED outside Customize; operating on it here may be unreliable.
>
>Before worrying what to do about that, the first thing to decide is
>whether this really should be defined with defcustom.  I believe that
>it should be defined with defvar.  It seems to me that to change this
>variable in a way that actually works, the user should use a command
>line option such as -q or -u.  Setting or saving it through Custom
>appears to make little sense.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Luc.
>  
>
Beside the above problem the value on w32 seems strange. I get the value 
"" with CVS Emacs from 2006-01-06 after .emacs have been read.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-07 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-07  3:48 rogue option init-file-user Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-07 14:01 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-01-07 15:12   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-07 15:39     ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-08 14:47     ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-07 18:57 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-07 21:27   ` David Kastrup
2006-01-07 22:29     ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-07 22:32     ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-07 23:29       ` David Kastrup
2006-01-07 22:49     ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-07 23:29   ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-01-09  0:51     ` Richard M. Stallman

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