* Re: custom-file should be allowed to be an alist
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@ 2003-01-09 7:28 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2003-01-09 7:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Some people like sorting their various customization variables into
different files so as to keep them under version control, and to see
what they have there, or so that they can exchange some files for
functionality they want to have configured sometimes so, sometimes
so. How to support this? Well, if custom-file was an alist, one
could just look up the group of the variable to be customized in it,
and associate a filename with it. If the group is not in there, take
the parent group and repeat. Top groups of course have a parent of
nil. That way, a cons cell with nil in its car would serve as a
fallback for variables which have no group in their ancestry
specified.
It seems like a reasonable feature if someone wants to do it.
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