From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed? Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:23:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <075b01c4d9a4$52799460$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <006701c4da59$e9c36de0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200412060256.iB62uu415095@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102393801 3064 80.91.229.6 (7 Dec 2004 04:30:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 04:30:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 05:29:58 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CbWz4-0007Kd-00 for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 05:29:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbX8q-0006s4-K9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:40:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbX6q-0005yF-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:37:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbX6n-0005x3-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbX6n-0005w0-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:37:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CbWwb-0003fM-7V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:27:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CbWtK-0001QJ-8D; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:23:58 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200412060256.iB62uu415095@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:56:56 -0600 (CST)) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30792 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30792 2. The current docstring does not make clear that you do not need to set `custom-file' in your init file, if you set it through Custom and explicitly load it in your init file, which to me seems somewhat cleaner anyway, if you set it with a defcustom elsewhere. 3. It explains why it is _not_ outright silly to set it through Custom, even though you have to edit .emacs anyway. We're still considering whether to change this, so let's finish that before we work further on documenting such details.