From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: always put Customizations in `custom-file', never in `user-init-file'
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:12:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACIELMCFAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475DAEAE.2040305@gmail.com>
> > Be very careful. In particular, the natural idea of migrating by
> > loading the init file and using Custom to save its internal state to a
> > custom-file caused no end of pain to users when it was implemented in
> > XEmacs. If there is any error in the init file, you can lose all
> > customizations.
>
> Then it might be best to avoid automatic migration, but to give a
> command to migrate custom data to custom-file.
I don't see the problem, if it's understood that `custom-file' would not be
loaded automatically, but only when (where) the user requests via (load-file
custom-file).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-10 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-10 19:02 always put Customizations in `custom-file', never in `user-init-file' Drew Adams
2007-12-10 19:21 ` Eric Hanchrow
2007-12-10 20:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-10 21:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-10 21:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-10 22:12 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-12-10 22:35 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-10 23:09 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-10 23:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-10 23:44 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 0:05 ` Jason Rumney
2007-12-11 0:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-10 22:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-10 23:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-11 0:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-10 23:08 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 0:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-10 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-10 23:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-11 0:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-11 1:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-11 6:05 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 0:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 2:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-11 6:15 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 9:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-11 16:57 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-12 10:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-12 16:31 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-11 19:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-10 21:58 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-11 6:04 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-11 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 22:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-10 22:07 ` Jason Rumney
2007-12-10 23:08 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 3:02 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-12-11 6:06 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 11:39 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-12-11 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-11 19:00 ` Richard Stallman
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