From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:07:02 +0900 Message-ID: <87od0cmk9l.fsf@xemacs.org> References: <5f0ff9220811130629t505badf9kb1bcc380df89a08f@mail.gmail.com> <200811131619.mADGJukm010206@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <87prkz4kgh.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200811131728.mADHSH2M010654@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <871vxflbxb.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200811131848.mADImPMQ011099@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <200811181636.mAIGa9Lx000571@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <87prks6693.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227067389 5837 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2008 04:03:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , "T.V. Raman" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , Dan Nicolaescu , Stefan Monnier To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 05:04:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L2eIT-00031f-Gx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:04:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2eHK-00024o-Su for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2eHA-000225-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:02:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2eH8-00021J-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:02:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37580 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2eH8-00021D-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:02:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:35513) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2eH8-0001kq-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:02:46 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 708F2820D; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:02:42 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 82823127E63; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:07:02 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:105803 Archived-At: 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. > (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.