From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Custom Et Al: Build-Up The Underlying Platform was Re: A new user perspective about "Changes for emacs 28" Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:44:47 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <878sdi7skw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <1ca462fa-0f9e-3c18-6386-f43f49388b2f@gmail.com> <20200907180812.5tfylspp7i6vl4o3@Ergus> <94fda087-a61b-356d-4bb4-791907593246@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28174"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: spacibba@aol.com, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, nicola.manca85@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= To: "T.V Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 21:05:48 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5Pf-0007Ba-NN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:05:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59826 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5Pe-00020D-NK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:05:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5Nr-0006KE-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from relay2-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.194]:56039) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kG5Np-0001vw-LH; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:03:54 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.97.241 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-97-241.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.97.241]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay2-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E303640004; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 19:03:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (T. V. Raman's message of "Wed, 09 Sep 2020 07:32:35 -0700") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.194; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay2-d.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/09 15:03:48 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254920 Archived-At: > My recommendation based on some of the present drawbacks I enumerated > might be to split the custom file into per-package customizations plus > an emacs-core piece. That might leave too many small files though which > is the other end of the pendulum's swing with respect to the > windows-registry single file failure, ie the UNIX world of a zillion > dot-files --- but given the experience of both worlds, perhaps we can > find a good middle ground. +1 To support multiple customization locations, Custom-save should scan all loaded init files for custom-set-variables and update all places where the saved variable was mentioned.