From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A fundamental problem with defcustoms that are lists
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:45:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C2FA14.3070509@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C2BF2F.9040700@gmail.com>
> If you customize such an option and the default values are changed you
> will not notice because when your setting is used Emacs never sees the
> changes in default.
>
> This mean that any enhancements or bug corrections to the default will
> never be used.
This problem is comparable to what happens when you change a file under
version control and subsequently update from the repository. You have
to decide whether and how to merge your changes with those from the
repository. A similar merge mechanism would be needed for customize.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-06 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-06 17:34 A fundamental problem with defcustoms that are lists Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 18:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-06 18:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 19:56 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-06 20:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-06 21:45 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2008-09-06 22:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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