From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Customize custom-file is not useful as it works now
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:40:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Cb7rL-00014V-5a@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00be01c4daef$5c11b600$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se)
The editing I proposed shows the old entry if any in .emacs marked and asks
the user whether to change it. It looks mostly like query replace, but with
some more marking. (Though I forgot to add a question when adding.) This
could all be made a bit nicer (it is just not quite finished yet) and I
realize that many would not want automatic editing of .emacs. And it is a
bit scary to do the editing too. However when the user is asked to accept
the change and clearly shown what will be done it might perhaps be accepted
by most users?
This seems like a good argument, so I guess we should try your change.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-06 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-04 1:28 Customize custom-file is not useful as it works now Lennart Borgman
2004-12-04 23:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-05 14:38 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-05 17:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-06 1:40 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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