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: Feature Request: Per-package custom save files? Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:55:07 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87ppi25kbo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <21413.43005.992475.896234@lapdog.roam.corp.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403366150 25465 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2014 15:55:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:55:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 21 17:55:42 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WyNdk-0006Z1-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:55:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WyNdk-00029L-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:55:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55138) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WyNdZ-00028L-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:55:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WyNdR-0006tG-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:55:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WyNdR-0006sw-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WyNdO-0006Ep-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from x2f3cc07.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.243.204.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by x2f3cc07.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:55:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f3cc07.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y4+KgeaYJmh6k9N1H4AaiiTF//A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172609 Archived-At: "T. V. Raman" writes: > This means that I've let custom manage .customize-emacs -- that > is nice; however looking at it now, I see that that file has > become huge. What's more -- there are a lot of saved settings > in there that are likely now obsolete/irrelevant -- also some > settings that needed to be set explicitly in early versions of > packages is now achieved by not doing anything since the defaults > do the right thing. Finally, custom ends up loading > customizations for *every* package you've ever seen -- including > ones that you use at present, ones that you autoload and ones > that you dont have around any more. > > So feature request: > > Could we arrange for customize to save package specific settings > in a package-specific customizations file? The present one > custom file that binds them all feels like the Windows Registry:-) That would affect load time quite a bit. Doing a sorted cleanup should be reasonably possible using M-x customize-saved RET -- David Kastrup