From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rogue option init-file-user Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:27:05 +0100 Message-ID: <85bqynloeu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200601070348.k073mcR00400@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136671723 28760 80.91.229.2 (7 Jan 2006 22:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 22:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 07 23:08:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvMEp-0004bk-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:08:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvMGg-0004da-As for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:10:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EvMGL-0004ZK-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:10:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EvMGJ-0004XX-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:10:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvMGJ-0004XF-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:10:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EvMIJ-0005oE-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EvMCZ-0002XH-Hy; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:06:19 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 825DA1C4CD7B; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 22:27:05 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:57:06 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:48830 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" 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