From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: :file keyword for Customize Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 18:08:36 +0100 Message-ID: <48233394.5060205@gnu.org> References: <004101c8b129$788cd490$0ab32382@us.oracle.com> <48232D95.3020304@gnu.org> <004501c8b12c$d10ce620$0ab32382@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210266560 20074 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2008 17:09:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 17:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Emacs-Devel' To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 08 19:09:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ju9ci-00081f-OP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 19:09:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ju9c0-0005lR-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 13:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ju9bp-0005e7-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 13:08:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ju9bm-0005ab-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 13:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55790 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ju9bm-0005aN-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 13:08:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]:50388) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ju9bm-0008Of-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 13:08:42 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 76985631/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAIrQIkhTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBU6pZ X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 08 May 2008 18:08:40 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 845581488; Thu, 8 May 2008 18:08:40 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <004501c8b12c$d10ce620$0ab32382@us.oracle.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:96804 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > The granularity for Customize customizations, in terms of persistence and > loading is currently all or none: everything is in one file (`custom-file' or > `init-file'). JDEE at least, saves its own customizations in project files in the local directory. I think Gnus also lets you save your Gnus related customizations in .gnus. That is why I suggested looking at what those packages do. > It just occurred to me that it might be better to at least let > Emacs-Lisp programmers group customizations into smaller persistence/load units, > if they see fit. > It might be better to do it at the group level than each individual customization then, if grouping is the desired outcome.