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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rogue option init-file-user
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:27:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85bqynloeu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EvJFS-0006jd-PH@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:57:06 -0500")

"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>       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.
>
> What do others think?

I think that in the long run, it should be possible to save
customizations in several different files.  When loading customization
files, some variable property would keep track where to save changes
for that variable.  This property would be set to user-init-file for
custom-file by default.

However, that's not something to think about before the release, I
guess.  Short of that, I'd take custom-file out of customize for now,
and just make it a defvar.

I don't think a separate command line option is necessary.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-07 21:27 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
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 [this message]
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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