From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Settings Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:50:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87ftljhthg.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87y2zuumeg.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <65d93cdd-58df-4562-8497-3552f0636f09@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="25405"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 30 11:51:38 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i3dZC-0006Va-K6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:51:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57634 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i3dZB-0003UG-En for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 05:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47461) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i3dYm-0003U7-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 05:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i3dYi-0001yD-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 05:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:33826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i3dYg-0001l9-Sy; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 05:51:07 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i3dYS-0000RF-He; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:50:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:22:48 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 80.91.231.51 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:239699 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > My point is that maybe we don't want to process all custom > definitions in one single batch. If we can identify specific > needs with regard to particular custom variables, we could > do something more sophisticated, and MAYBE we could make that > work right for every user without requiring that the user > figure out a solution that works right for all of them. It's possible, but I think that sounds... very ambitious. But I could see the case for saying something general like "customising hook variables should happen before loading .emacs, because that will make add-hook work", but even that would be controversial. (Customising a hook sets the variable to a specific value; it doesn't add functions.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no