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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
	"T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
	Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:07:02 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od0cmk9l.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0811181537ybfba75g541926ff722d551b@mail.gmail.com>

Juanma Barranquero writes:

 > Making it user-settable

It *is* user-settable, at worst it requires rebuilding Emacs and we
all do that several times a day.<wink>

 > (perhaps, as Chong says, as a variable and not a defcustom) is best
 > than trying to second-guess the users.

Sometimes compromise is bad, and it is in this case.  Making this a
variable is admittedly broken by design.  Let those who know enough to
work around the breakage prove it by adding the feature in their
user or site init files if they want to.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-19  4:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-13 14:29 files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable T.V. Raman
2008-11-13 15:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-13 16:07   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-13 16:19     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-13 16:45       ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 17:14         ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-13 17:28           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-13 17:55             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 17:59               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-13 19:13                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 19:00               ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 19:15                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 18:26             ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-13 18:48               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 16:36                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 22:04                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-18 22:15                     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 22:42                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-18 23:18                         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 23:41                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-18 22:59                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-18 23:31                       ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-18 23:33                       ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-18 23:41                         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 23:50                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-19  0:14                             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-19  1:48                               ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-19  8:26                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-19 12:52                               ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-18 23:37                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-19  2:01                         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-19  8:39                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-19 13:27                           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-19 22:45                           ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-19 22:58                             ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-20  2:18                             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 19:08                               ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-22 19:40                                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-22 19:51                                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-22 20:20                                     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-22 22:03                                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-23  3:34                                       ` Miles Bader
2008-11-23  5:27                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23  5:36                                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-23  5:58                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23  8:10                                           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-23 10:45                                             ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-23 12:10                                               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-23 12:41                                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-23 17:16                                                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-23 17:45                                                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-23 21:21                                                       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-24  2:14                                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-24  3:06                                               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-24  5:35                                                 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-22  4:03                             ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-19  4:07                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-11-13 19:04               ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 19:23           ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 19:55             ` Juanma Barranquero

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