From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Angelo Graziosi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages' Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:55:25 +0100 Message-ID: <56C6139D.4020208@alice.it> References: <56C43D17.7010009@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455821735 11935 80.91.229.3 (18 Feb 2016 18:55:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: raman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 18 19:55:22 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aWTjU-00023s-Aj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:55:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWTjT-0003Te-UW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWTjP-0003Q0-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:55:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWTjL-0005pY-UK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp202.alice.it ([82.57.200.98]:15731) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWTjL-0005oj-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:55:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.101] (79.19.230.242) by smtp202.alice.it (8.6.060.43) (authenticated as angelo.graziosi@alice.it) id 5697B30A0726D581; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:55:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.98 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:200147 Archived-At: Maybe I am wrong but Aquamacs does this way. It saves all things in (custom-set-variables ... ) in another file.. Angelo Il 18/02/2016 17:19, raman ha scritto: > John Wiegley writes: > > In general it's a good idea to put all custom settings in a separate > file -- rather than the init file. As power user I've done this ever > since I started using custom, since I wanted to be able to continue > editing my init file by hand -- but it's a usage style that could > perhaps be made the default -- since most casual users never discover > this. Also, the persisted custom settings get flaky/fragile over time > -- I've never filed a bug because it's hard to track down -- but over > time you see things get truncated -- eg vars whose saved value is a long > list. I presently keep my .customize-emacs file under git (I also > encrypt it so passwds etc are not visible -- but that's a different > story > > ) >>>>>> Angelo Graziosi writes: >> >>> Since this was added to Emacs, I have a backup copy of my original init file >>> so that I can remove those not requested addictions.. and this is very >>> annoying... >> >> Angelo, would you open a bug on this matter so that we can track it properly, >> and you'll be included on the discussion? I do think this should be fixed by >> saving the settings to a separate file -- at least, based on this cursory >> discussion. Perhaps the experts in this area have better reasons than we've >> heard so far. >